Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift now support Amazon EKS in the GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift have expanded their capabilities and now support Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the GovCloud (US) Regions. ARC zonal shift helps customers quickly recover an unhealthy application in an Availability Zone (AZ), and reduce the duration and severity of impact to the application due to events such as power outages and hardware or software failures. ARC zonal autoshift safely and automatically shifts an application’s traffic away from an AZ when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that AZ.

Amazon EKS customers can now shift traffic away from an AZ in the event of a failure. Zonal shift works with Amazon EKS by shifting in-cluster traffic to healthy AZs and ensuring Pods aren’t scheduled in the impaired AZ. You can enable EKS clusters for zonal shift using the EKS console or API.

There is no additional charge for using zonal shift or zonal autoshift. Amazon EKS support for zonal shift is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, read the documentation.