Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces the general availability of EKS Capabilities, a fully-managed extensible set of Kubernetes-native platform features for workload deployment, AWS cloud resource management, and Kubernetes resource composition and orchestration. EKS Capabilities provides out-of-the-box platform features and offloads operations to AWS, improving the performance and security of your platform components.

EKS Capabilities streamlines building and scaling with Kubernetes, allowing you to focus on deploying applications rather than maintaining platform infrastructure. These capabilities run in AWS-owned infrastructure separate from your clusters, with AWS handling auto scaling, patching, and upgrading. Application developers get ready-to-use platform capabilities that enable faster workload deployment and scaling across the organization, while platform teams can offload operational tasks to AWS. Three capabilities are available at launch including continuous deployment with Argo CD, AWS resource management through AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), and dynamic resource orchestration using Kube Resource Orchestrator (KRO).

EKS Capabilities is available today in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. To get started with EKS Capabilities, use the EKS API, CLI, eksctl, AWS Console, or your favorite infrastructure as code tooling to enable it in a new or existing EKS cluster. To learn more, visit the EKS Capabilities feature webpage, user guide, pricing webpage, and AWS News Launch blog.