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Document history for Amazon EKS
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| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
You can now use Capacity Blocks for managed node groups. | July 1, 2024 | |
We updated the "Storage" chapter to be more scenario-driven and renamed it to "Store application data". | June 28, 2024 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | June 27, 2024 |
We made improvements to the AMI information references, in particular for Bottlerocket. | June 14, 2024 | |
Kubernetes version | June 12, 2024 | |
Added Kubernetes version | May 23, 2024 | |
This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This
includes new patch versions of Kubernetes | May 14, 2024 | |
CoreDNS autoscaler will dynamically adapt the number of replicas of the
CoreDNS deployment in an EKS cluster based on the number of nodes and CPU
cores. This feature works for CoreDNS | May 14, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Pod Identities associate an IAM role with a Kubernetes service account. With this feature, you no longer need to provide extended permissions to the node IAM role. This way, Pods on that node can call Amazon APIs. Unlike IAM roles for service accounts, EKS Pod Identities are completely inside EKS; you don't need an OIDC identity provider. | May 7, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Extended Support for Kubernetes versions in China Regions | Extended Kubernetes version support allows you to stay at a specific Kubernetes version for longer than 14 months. | April 16, 2024 |
The Amazon CloudWatch Observability Operator add-on now also allows Container Insights on Windows worker nodes in the cluster. | April 10, 2024 | |
Added new Kubernetes concepts topic. | April 5, 2024 | |
Move existing pages related to access and IAM topics, such as auth config map, access entries, Pod ID, and IRSA into new section. Revise overview content. | April 2, 2024 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | March 4, 2024 |
Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is a new Linux-based operating system designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance environment for your cloud applications. | February 29, 2024 | |
EKS Pod Identity and IRSA support sidecars in Kubernetes | In Kubernetes | February 26, 2024 |
Added Kubernetes version | January 23, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS detects issues with your Amazon EKS clusters and the infrastructure of the
cluster prerequisites in cluster health. You can view the
issues with your EKS clusters in the Amazon Web Services Management Console and in the | December 28, 2023 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) ( | December 20, 2023 |
You can now get recommendations on your cluster based on recurring checks. | December 20, 2023 | |
You can now grant IAM roles and users access to your cluster using access entries | Before the introduction of access entries, you granted IAM roles and users
access to your cluster by adding entries to the | December 18, 2023 |
This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This
includes new patch versions of Kubernetes | December 12, 2023 | |
In the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you can now turn on Prometheus metrics when creating a cluster. You can also view Prometheus scraper details in the Observability tab. | November 26, 2023 | |
You can now install the CSI snapshot controller for use with compatible CSI drivers, such as the Amazon EBS CSI driver. | November 17, 2023 | |
The Amazon EKS add-on support for ADOT Operator section was redundant with the Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry documentation. We migrated remaining essential information to that resource to reduce outdated and inconsistent information. | November 14, 2023 | |
The | November 10, 2023 | |
Added Amazon EKS CloudWatch Observability Operator page. | November 6, 2023 | |
You can update the cluster to change which subnets and security groups the
cluster uses. You can update from the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the latest version of the
Amazon CLI, Amazon CloudFormation, and | October 24, 2023 | |
You can use a custom IAM policy on the cluster role,
instead of the | October 23, 2023 | |
Fix link to eksctl installation | Fix install link for eksctl after the page was moved. | October 6, 2023 |
Remove references to Amazon App Mesh integration | Amazon EKS integrations with Amazon App Mesh remain for existing customers of App Mesh only. | September 29, 2023 |
Added Kubernetes version | September 26, 2023 | |
You can use Kubernetes network policy in existing clusters with the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes, instead of requiring a third party solution. | September 15, 2023 | |
You can modify the | September 15, 2023 | |
New Shared subnet requirements and considerations for making Amazon EKS clusters in shared subnets. | September 7, 2023 | |
Added new Common use cases and Architecture topics. Refreshed other topics. | September 6, 2023 | |
Kubernetes network policy enforcement in the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes | You can use Kubernetes network policy with the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes, instead of requiring a third party solution. | August 29, 2023 |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) ( | August 1, 2023 |
You can increase the total amount of ephemeral storage for each Pod running on Amazon EKS Fargate. | July 31, 2023 | |
Amazon EKS added a new Amazon managed policy. | July 26, 2023 | |
Kubernetes version updates to 1.27.3, 1.26.6, 1.25.11, and 1.24.15 are now available for local clusters on Amazon Outposts | July 20, 2023 | |
Assigning IP prefixes to your nodes can enable you to host a significantly higher number of Pods on your nodes than you can when assigning individual secondary IP addresses to your nodes. | July 6, 2023 | |
You can now install the Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI driver on Amazon EKS clusters. | June 30, 2023 | |
Pods on Linux nodes in | After assigning an IPv6 address to your node, your Pods'
| June 19, 2023 |
Windows managed node groups in China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) | In the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Amazon Web Services Regions, Amazon EKS managed node groups can now run Windows containers. | May 30, 2023 |
In the Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions, Amazon EKS managed node groups can now run Windows containers. | May 30, 2023 | |
Added Kubernetes version | May 24, 2023 | |
Added Kubernetes version | April 11, 2023 | |
You can now use domainless gMSA with Windows Pods. | March 27, 2023 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
( | March 10, 2023 |
You can now install the Amazon File Cache CSI driver on Amazon EKS clusters. | March 3, 2023 | |
Kubernetes version 1.25 is now available for local clusters on Amazon Outposts | You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost using Kubernetes versions
| March 1, 2023 |
Added Kubernetes version | February 22, 2023 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | February 7, 2023 |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ( | February 6, 2023 |
Kubernetes versions | You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost using Kubernetes versions
| January 17, 2023 |
You can use an Amazon PrivateLink to create a private connection between your VPC and Amazon EKS. | December 16, 2022 | |
You can now use Windows for Amazon EKS managed node groups. | December 15, 2022 | |
You can now browse and subscribe to Amazon EKS add-ons from independent software vendors through the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. | November 28, 2022 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | November 17, 2022 |
Added Kubernetes version | November 15, 2022 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Middle East (UAE)
( | November 3, 2022 |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | October 24, 2022 |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | October 20, 2022 |
You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost. | September 19, 2022 | |
Fargate is transitioning from Pod based quotas to vCPU based quotas. | September 8, 2022 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | August 31, 2022 |
Amazon EKS now supports Kubecost, which enables you to monitor costs broken down by Kubernetes resources including Pods, nodes, namespaces, and labels. | August 24, 2022 | |
Amazon EKS added a new Amazon managed policy. | August 24, 2022 | |
Amazon EKS added a new Amazon managed policy. | August 23, 2022 | |
Added | August 16, 2022 | |
Added support for Fargate profile wildcards in the selector criteria for namespaces, label keys, and label values. | August 16, 2022 | |
Added Kubernetes version | August 11, 2022 | |
View Kubernetes resources in the Amazon Web Services Management Console | You can now view information about the Kubernetes resources deployed to your cluster using the Amazon Web Services Management Console. | May 3, 2022 |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
( | May 2, 2022 |
Added Observability page and Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). | April 21, 2022 | |
Kubernetes version 1.22 | Added Kubernetes version | April 4, 2022 |
Amazon EKS added a new Amazon managed policy. | April 4, 2022 | |
When upgrading Fargate Pods, Amazon EKS first tries to evict Pods based on your Pod disruption budgets. You can create event rules to react to failed evictions before the Pods are deleted. | April 1, 2022 | |
You can now use the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, and API to manage the Amazon EBS CSI driver. | March 31, 2022 | |
Instructions to deploy an Amazon EKS cluster on Amazon Outposts. | March 22, 2022 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | March 21, 2022 |
You can now select the | March 14, 2022 | |
Added Amazon EKS Connector considerations to security documentation | Describes the shared responsibility model as it relates to connected clusters. | February 25, 2022 |
You can now create a | January 6, 2022 | |
Amazon managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing Amazon managed policy. | December 13, 2021 |
You can now preview using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, and API to manage the Amazon EBS CSI driver. | December 9, 2021 | |
You can now use the Karpenter open-source project to autoscale your nodes. | November 29, 2021 | |
You can now use the Fluent Bit Kubernetes filter with Fargate logging. | November 10, 2021 | |
Windows support is now available in your control plane. You no longer need to enable it in your data plane. | November 9, 2021 | |
Previously, Bottlerocket was only available as a self-managed node option. Now it can be configured as a managed node group, reducing the effort that's required to meet node compliance requirements. | October 28, 2021 | |
Custom Amazon Linux AMIs now support deep learning workloads for Amazon Linux 2. This enablement allows a generic on-premises or cloud baseline configuration. | October 25, 2021 | |
Custom Amazon Linux AMIs now support VT1 for some distributions. This enablement advertises Xilinx U30 devices on your Amazon EKS cluster. | September 13, 2021 | |
You can use Amazon EKS Connector to register and connect any conformant Kubernetes cluster to Amazon and visualize it in the Amazon EKS console. | September 8, 2021 | |
Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that you can use to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises. | September 8, 2021 | |
Added topic that summarizes the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP CSI driver and gives links to other references. | September 2, 2021 | |
Managed node groups now auto-calculates the Amazon EKS recommended maximum Pods for nodes | Managed node groups now auto-calculate the Amazon EKS maximum Pods for nodes that you deploy without a launch template, or with a launch template that you haven't specified an AMI ID in. | August 30, 2021 |
Remove Amazon EKS management of add-on settings without removing the Amazon EKS add-on software | You can now remove an Amazon EKS add-on without removing the add-on software from your cluster. | August 20, 2021 |
You can now add multiple network interfaces to a Pod using Multus. | August 2, 2021 | |
You can now add significantly more IP addresses to your Linux Amazon EC2 nodes. This means that you can run a higher density of Podson each node. | July 27, 2021 | |
The Amazon EKS optimized accelerated Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) now contains a
bootstrap flag that you can use to enable the | July 19, 2021 | |
Kubernetes version 1.21 | Added Kubernetes version | July 19, 2021 |
A list of all Amazon EKS IAM managed policies and changes that were made to them since June 17, 2021. | June 17, 2021 | |
You can now use security groups for Pods with Fargate, in addition to using them with Amazon EC2 nodes. | June 1, 2021 | |
Amazon EKS can now help you manage the CoreDNS and | May 19, 2021 | |
Kubernetes version 1.20 | Added Kubernetes version | May 18, 2021 |
You can now use the Amazon Load Balancer Controller to create Elastic Load Balancers using instance or IP targets. | May 14, 2021 | |
Amazon EKS now supports adding note taints to managed node groups. | May 11, 2021 | |
Amazon EKS now supports adding secrets encryption | February 26, 2021 | |
Kubernetes version 1.19 | Added Kubernetes version | February 16, 2021 |
OIDC identity providers can be used with, or as an alternative to Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM). | February 12, 2021 | |
View node and workload resources in the Amazon Web Services Management Console | You can now view details about your managed, self-managed, and Fargate nodes and your deployed Kubernetes workloads in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. | December 1, 2020 |
You can now deploy multiple Spot or On-Demand Instance types to a managed node group. | December 1, 2020 | |
You can manage add-ons yourself, or allow Amazon EKS to control the launch and version of an add-on through the Amazon EKS API. | December 1, 2020 | |
You can now share an Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB) across multiple Kubernetes Ingresses. In the past, you had to deploy a separate ALB for each Ingress. | October 23, 2020 | |
You can now deploy a Network Load Balancer with IP targets. This means that you can use an NLB to load balance network traffic to Fargate Pods and directly to Pods that are running on Amazon EC2 nodes. | October 23, 2020 | |
Kubernetes version 1.18 | Added Kubernetes version | October 13, 2020 |
Specify a custom CIDR block for Kubernetes service IP address assignment. | You can now specify a custom CIDR block that Kubernetes assigns service IP addresses from. | September 29, 2020 |
You can now associate different security groups to some of the individual Pods that are running on many Amazon EC2 instance types. | September 9, 2020 | |
You can now deploy nodes that are running Bottlerocket | August 31, 2020 | |
You can now launch Arm nodes in managed and self-managed node groups. | August 17, 2020 | |
You can now deploy a managed node group that uses an Amazon EC2 launch template. The launch template can specify a custom AMI, if you choose. | August 17, 2020 | |
You can now use Amazon EFS with Amazon Fargate. | August 17, 2020 | |
This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This
includes UDP support for services of type | August 12, 2020 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) ( | August 6, 2020 |
Amazon Fargate provides CloudWatch usage metrics that provide visibility into your account's usage of Fargate On-Demand resources. | August 3, 2020 | |
Kubernetes version 1.17 | Added Kubernetes version | July 10, 2020 |
You can create and manage App Mesh resources from within Kubernetes. The controller also automatically injects the Envoy proxy and init containers into Pods that you deploy. | June 18, 2020 | |
You can add Amazon EC2 Inf1 nodes to your cluster. | June 4, 2020 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Amazon GovCloud (US-East)
( | May 13, 2020 |
Kubernetes version | May 12, 2020 | |
Kubernetes version 1.16 | Added Kubernetes version | April 30, 2020 |
Added the AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS service-linked role. | April 16, 2020 | |
Kubernetes version 1.15 | Added Kubernetes version | March 10, 2020 |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Beijing ( | February 26, 2020 |
Added topic for installing the FSx for Lustre CSI driver on Kubernetes
| December 23, 2019 | |
Restrict network access to the public access endpoint of a cluster | With this update, you can use Amazon EKS to restrict the CIDR ranges that can communicate to the public access endpoint of the Kubernetes API server. | December 20, 2019 |
Resolve the private access endpoint address for a cluster from outside of a VPC | With this update, you can use Amazon EKS to resolve the private access endpoint of the Kubernetes API server from outside of a VPC. | December 13, 2019 |
Launch Amazon EC2 A1 | December 4, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS now supports creating clusters on Amazon Outposts. | December 3, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters now support running Pods on Fargate. | December 3, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Canada (Central)
( | November 21, 2019 |
Amazon EKS managed node groups automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes (Amazon EC2 instances) for Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters. | November 18, 2019 | |
New platform versions to address | November 6, 2019 | |
Kubernetes version | November 4, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the South America (São Paulo) ( | October 16, 2019 |
Amazon EKS clusters running Kubernetes version | October 7, 2019 | |
Added a chapter to cover some of the different types of Kubernetes autoscaling that are supported on Amazon EKS clusters. | September 30, 2019 | |
Updated topic for installing the Kubernetes Dashboard on Amazon EKS clusters to use the
beta | September 28, 2019 | |
Added topic for installing the Amazon EFS CSI driver on Kubernetes | September 19, 2019 | |
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager parameter for Amazon EKS optimized AMI ID | Added topic for retrieving the Amazon EKS optimized AMI ID using an Amazon EC2 Systems Manager parameter. The parameter eliminates the need for you to look up AMI IDs. | September 18, 2019 |
You can manage the tagging of your Amazon EKS clusters. | September 16, 2019 | |
Added topic for installing the Amazon EBS CSI driver on Kubernetes | September 9, 2019 | |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for | Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address | September 6, 2019 |
Amazon EKS discontinued support for Kubernetes version | September 4, 2019 | |
Kubernetes version 1.14 | Added Kubernetes version | September 3, 2019 |
With IAM roles for service accounts on Amazon EKS clusters, you can associate an IAM role with a Kubernetes service account. With this feature, you no longer need to provide extended permissions to the node IAM role. This way, Pods on that node can call Amazon APIs. | September 3, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) ( | August 29, 2019 |
New platform versions to address | August 28, 2019 | |
New platform versions to address | August 5, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ( | July 31, 2019 |
Kubernetes version | July 30, 2019 | |
The Amazon ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes is a controller that causes an ALB to be created when ingress resources are created. | July 11, 2019 | |
Removing unnecessary | July 3, 2019 | |
Kubernetes version 1.13 | Added Kubernetes version | June 18, 2019 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the vulnerabilities that
are described in | June 17, 2019 | |
Announcing discontinuation of support of Kubernetes | Amazon EKS stopped supporting Kubernetes version | May 21, 2019 |
New platform version for Kubernetes | May 21, 2019 | |
Amazon CLIget-token command | The
| May 10, 2019 |
This getting started guide describes how you can install all of the required
resources to get started with Amazon EKS using | May 10, 2019 | |
New platform version for Kubernetes | May 8, 2019 | |
Added topic for deploying Prometheus to your Amazon EKS cluster. | April 5, 2019 | |
With this update, you can get audit and diagnostic logs directly from the Amazon EKS control pane. You can use these CloudWatch logs in your account as reference for securing and running clusters. | April 4, 2019 | |
Kubernetes version 1.12 | Added Kubernetes version | March 28, 2019 |
Added documentation for getting started with App Mesh and Kubernetes. | March 27, 2019 | |
Added documentation for disabling public access for your Amazon EKS cluster's Kubernetes API server endpoint. | March 19, 2019 | |
The Kubernetes Metrics Server is an aggregator of resource usage data in your cluster. | March 18, 2019 | |
These open source projects extend the functionality of Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon, including clusters that are managed by Amazon EKS. | March 15, 2019 | |
The | March 11, 2019 | |
New platform version that updates Amazon EKS Kubernetes | March 8, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS has increased the number of clusters that you can create in an Amazon Web Services Region from 3 to 50. | February 13, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (London) ( | February 13, 2019 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the vulnerability that's
described in | February 11, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the CVEs that are
referenced in | January 9, 2019 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul)
( | January 9, 2019 |
Amazon EKS region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the following additional Amazon Web Services Regions:
Europe (Frankfurt) ( | December 19, 2018 |
Added documentation for Amazon EKS cluster Kubernetes version updates and node replacement. | December 12, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) ( | December 11, 2018 |
New platform version updating Kubernetes to patch level | December 4, 2018 | |
The ALB ingress controller releases version | November 20, 2018 | |
The Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes version | October 16, 2018 | |
Added support for | Amazon EKS platform version | October 10, 2018 |
Canonical has partnered with Amazon EKS to create node AMIs that you can use in your clusters. | October 3, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS has added the | September 21, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMIs (with and without GPU support) to provide various security fixes and AMI optimizations. | September 13, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS Amazon Web Services Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (Ireland) ( | September 5, 2018 |
New platform version with support for Kubernetes aggregation layer | August 31, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to use a new Amazon CloudFormation node template and
bootstrap script | August 22, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the CVEs that are
referenced in | August 14, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS has open-sourced the build scripts that are used to build the Amazon EKS optimized AMI. These build scripts are now available on GitHub. | July 10, 2018 | |
Amazon EKS initial release | Initial documentation for service launch | June 5, 2018 |