Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon EKS.
Information as of November 3, 2026.
Amazon EKS Dashboard adds consolidated CA rotation visibility across clusters, enabling fleet-wide management of upcoming expirations and automated rotation events
Amazon EMR announces a 30 percent reduction in the EMR charge added to EKS when running EMR on EKS, applying to both per-vCPU-hour and per-GB-hour charges while EKS charges remain unchanged.
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37, enabling new features and bug fixes for users
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now allows direct tuning of kubelet settings, Linux kernel sysctls, and hugepages via the NodeClass Kubernetes resource, enabling advanced node tuning for workloads requiring specific configurations
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system that deploys as a single EKS managed add-on on existing SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure, reducing first-token latency by up to 82% and p99 TTFT by 97-98% in mixed-hardware and burst traffic scenarios.
AWS Private CA now offers its Kubernetes Connector as an Amazon EKS add-on and its Active Directory Connector in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding certificate automation capabilities for government workloads.
Amazon EKS allows up to 10 external OIDC providers per cluster, offering more flexibility in authenticating users and workloads
Amazon EKS Argo CD capability now allows custom configuration, enabling custom health checks and UI customization.
Amazon EKS automates certificate authority rotation, ensuring cluster security and continuity
Amazon EKS enables configuration of Kubernetes control plane components, allowing cluster administrators to fine-tune pod placement, autoscaling responsiveness, and resource lifecycle settings for improved resource utilization
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane increases HPA sync concurrency up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value, reducing scaling time for HPA-driven workloads under load.
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint, enabling private access from VPCs without internet egress for IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
Amazon EKS Auto Mode supports ARC zonal shift and autoshift, automatically protecting cluster availability during AZ impairments
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now offers significantly reduced management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types, with reductions of 35% for G-series and 60% for P-series and AWS Trainium, applying automatically to all clusters.
Amazon EKS now allows Kubernetes minor version rollback within 7 days after an upgrade, providing a safety net for production validation
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes new threat detections for sensitive file modifications on Amazon EC2, EKS, and ECS, helping identify post-compromise attacker activities.
AWS Network Firewall introduces container attribute-based rules for Amazon EKS and ECS, simplifying security for containerized workloads by using native container constructs instead of IP-based rules.
Amazon EKS introduces customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to be routed through your own VPC. This enables organizations with data perimeter requirements or compliance mandates to reach private OIDC providers and webhook servers accessible only within their VPC and control traffic routing.
Amazon EKS extends support for local clusters on AWS Outposts to first and second-generation racks running Amazon EC2 instances booted from EC2 instance store, enhancing data residency and resilience against temporary network disconnects
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