Author: Aditya Ramakrishnan

In this post, we explore how AWS continuously innovates with Kubernetes and how you can experience these these firsthand at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026.

In this post, we provide a comprehensive guide to the 48 Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2025, covering everything from simplified cluster management with Amazon EKS Auto Mode to advanced AI/ML workload orchestration, platform engineering, and production-grade security strategies. Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or architecting multi-region platforms, you’ll find sessions tailored to your needs across workshops, chalk talks, builders sessions, and hands-on experiences at the Containers kiosk in the AWS Village.

This post was co-authored by Shyam Jeedigunta, Principal Engineer, Amazon EKS; Apoorva Kulkarni, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers and Raghav Tripathi, Sr. Software Dev Manager, Amazon EKS. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced support for clusters with up to 100,000 nodes. With Amazon EC2’s new generation accelerated computing instance types, this translates to […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports up to 100,000 worker nodes in a single cluster, enabling customers to scale up to 1.6 million AWS Trainium accelerators or 800K NVIDIA GPUs to train and run the largest AI/ML models. This capability empowers customers to pursue their most ambitious AI […]

This post was co-authored by Ashok Srirama, Principal Container Specialist SA and George John, Senior Product Manager EKS.  Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to Amazon EKS Pod Identity –streamlined cross-account access for Kubernetes applications. This new feature simplifies the process of granting pods permission to access AWS resources in other accounts. […]

This blog post was jointly authored by Debasis Rath, Senior Solutions Architect – Serverless and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect – Serverless Introduction Containerized applications have become the standard for modern cloud deployments, offering consistent environments, streamlined dependency management and seamless scaling. However, the process of containerizing and deploying applications remains manual and time-consuming. Builders […]

This blog post was jointly authored by Niall Thomson, Principal Solutions Architect – Containers, Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect – Containers and George John, Senior Product Manager – Amazon EKS Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This new […]

This blog was authored by Adam Issaoui, Cloud Support Engineer – Containers, Asif Khan, Senior Solutions Architect, and Sébastien Allamand, Sr. Solution Architect Specialist – Containers.  Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has emerged as a fundamental platform for modern container orchestration. It enables organizations to effectively optimize their application deployment and management processes […]

This blog was authored by Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect Containers and Yuriy Bezsonov, Senior Partner Solutions Architect. Introduction Container startup performance presents a significant challenge for Java applications running on Kubernetes, particularly during scaling events and recovery scenarios. Although Java remains a top choice for both legacy modernization and new microservices development, especially […]

This post was jointly authored by Alex Kestner (Sr. Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ratnopam Chakrabarti (Sr. SA, Containers & OSS), Shivam Dubey (Specialist SA, Containers), and Suket Sharma (Sr. SDE, Amazon EKS).  Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers node monitoring and auto repair capabilities. This new feature enables automatic detection and remediation […]