Available Amazon EKS add-ons from Amazon - Amazon EKS
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Available Amazon EKS add-ons from Amazon

The following Amazon EKS add-ons are available to create on your cluster. You can view the most current list of available add-ons using eksctl, the Amazon Web Services Management Console, or the Amazon CLI. To see all available add-ons or to install an add-on, see Creating an Amazon EKS add-on. If an add-on requires IAM permissions, then you must have an IAM OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider for your cluster. To determine whether you have one, or to create one, see Create an IAM OIDC provider for your cluster. You can update or delete an add-on after you've installed it.

You can use any of the following Amazon EKS add-ons.

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Provide native VPC networking for your cluster

 Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes

A flexible, extensible DNS server that can serve as the Kubernetes cluster DNS

 CoreDNS
Maintain network rules on each Amazon EC2 node Kube-proxy
Provide Amazon EBS storage for your cluster Amazon EBS CSI driver
Provide Amazon EFS storage for your cluster Amazon EFS CSI driver
Provide Amazon S3 storage for your cluster Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI Driver
Enable the use of snapshot functionality in compatible CSI drivers, such as the Amazon EBS CSI driver CSI snapshot controller
Secure, production-ready, Amazon supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry
Security monitoring service that analyzes and processes foundational data sources including Amazon CloudTrail management events and Amazon VPC flow logs. Amazon GuardDuty also processes features, such as Kubernetes audit logs and runtime monitoring
Monitoring and observability service provided by Amazon. This add-on installs the CloudWatch Agent and enables both CloudWatch Application Signals and CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS
Ability to manage credentials for your applications, similar to the way that EC2 instance profiles provide credentials to EC2 instances EKS Pod Identity Agent