Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

2026/02/10 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Introducing an optional policy field, an IAM policy applied to pod identity associations in addition to IAM role policies. When specified, pod permissions are the intersection of IAM role policies and the policy field, ensuring the principle of least privilege.

2026/02/09 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EKS adds a new DescribeUpdate update type, VendedLogsUpdate, to support an integration between EKS Auto Mode and Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs.

2026/01/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for BOTTLEROCKET NVIDIA FIPS AMIs to AMI types in US regions.

2025/12/01 - 5 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for EKS Capabilities

2025/11/21 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for controlPlaneScalingConfig on EKS Clusters.

2025/09/22 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for RepairConfig overrides and configurations in EKS Managed Node Groups.

2025/08/27 - 2 new api methods

Changes   Add support for on-demand refresh of EKS cluster insights

2025/08/20 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   EKS Add-ons Custom Namespace Support

2025/08/05 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for deletion protection on EKS clusters

2025/06/11 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Release for EKS Pod Identity Cross Account feature and disableSessionTags flag.

2025/06/02 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for filtering ListInsights API calls on MISCONFIGURATION insight category

2025/04/16 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for new AL2023 ARM64 NVIDIA AMIs to the supported AMITypes.

2025/03/31 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for updating RemoteNetworkConfig for hybrid nodes on EKS UpdateClusterConfig API

2025/03/27 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for BOTTLEROCKET FIPS AMIs to AMI types in US regions.

2025/03/25 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Added support to override upgrade-blocking readiness checks via force flag when updating a cluster.

2025/02/28 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Adding licenses to EKS Anywhere Subscription operations response.

2025/02/07 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Introduce versionStatus field to take place of status field in EKS DescribeClusterVersions API

2025/01/24 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for UpdateStrategies in EKS Managed Node Groups.

2024/12/23 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for DescribeClusterVersions API that provides important information about Kubernetes versions along with end of support dates

2024/12/20 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release expands the catalog of upgrade insight checks

2024/12/13 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Add NodeRepairConfig in CreateNodegroupRequest and UpdateNodegroupConfigRequest

2024/12/02 - 15 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for Auto Mode Clusters, Hybrid Nodes, and specifying computeTypes in the DescribeAddonVersions API.

2024/11/08 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Adds new error code `Ec2InstanceTypeDoesNotExist` for Amazon EKS managed node groups

2024/10/21 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift with EKS that enhances the resiliency of multi-AZ cluster environments

2024/08/12 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for new AL2023 GPU AMIs to the supported AMITypes.

2024/07/25 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for EKS cluster to manage extended support.

2024/07/01 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Updates EKS managed node groups to support EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML

2024/06/26 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for disabling unmanaged addons during cluster creation.

2024/06/18 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support to surface async fargate customer errors from async path to customer through describe-fargate-profile API response.

2024/06/03 - 19 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for EKS add-ons pod identity associations integration

2024/03/28 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Add multiple customer error code to handle customer caused failure when managing EKS node groups

2024/02/29 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for new AL2023 AMIs to the supported AMITypes.