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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in Amazon Web Services China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services China
Region availabilityHow Amazon EKS differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in Amazon Web Services China

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on Amazon without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.

Region availability

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is available in the following regions in China:

  • China (Beijing) Region

  • China (Ningxia) Region

How Amazon EKS differs

The following differences apply to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service:

  • Dual-stack API endpoint for the Amazon EKS OIDC Issuer URL isn’t available.

  • Dual-stack API endpoint for the Amazon EKS API isn’t available.

  • Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes CLI utility nodeadm is available for download at the following endpoints:

    • For x86_64 hosts: https://eks-hybrid-assets.awsstatic.cn/releases/latest/bin/linux/amd64/nodeadm

    • For ARM hosts: https://eks-hybrid-assets.awsstatic.cn/releases/latest/bin/linux/arm64/nodeadm

  • The build of Cilium maintained by Amazon Web Services for use with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes is available at the following private ECR repositories:

    • China (Beijing) Region: 907723705730.dkr.ecr.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/cilium/cilium

    • China (Ningxia) Region: 907723705730.dkr.ecr.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/cilium/cilium

      To authenticate with the private registry, see Authenticating to a private Amazon ECR registry. To install Cilium using Helm, use the following command:

      helm install cilium oci://907723705730.dkr.ecr.REGION_CODE.amazonaws.com.cn/cilium/cilium \
    --version CILIUM_VERSION \
    --namespace kube-system \
    --values cilium-values.yaml

  • When using Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes, customers are responsible for complying with applicable cross-border data transfer requirements. We suggest only connecting your nodes located within Chinese mainland with EKS.

  • App Mesh isn’t available.

  • Amazon EKS on Amazon Outposts isn’t available.

  • Amazon EC2 A1 instance worker nodes aren’t available.

  • The Amazon EKS connector isn’t available.

  • The following add-ons may require modification for use (see the topics for details):

  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus isn’t available.

  • Amazon EKS Anywhere isn’t available.

  • The Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs aren’t available.

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