Category: Announcements

Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane, a new capability that allows you to pre-allocate control plane capacity for predictable, high-performance Kubernetes operations at scale. In this post, we explore how this enhanced option complements the Standard Control Plane by offering multiple scaling tiers (XL, 2XL, 4XL) with well-defined performance characteristics for API request concurrency, pod scheduling rates, and cluster database size—enabling you to handle demanding workloads like ultra-scale AI training, high-performance computing, and mission-critical applications with confidence.

In this post, we show how you can use the new event capture capability in the Amazon ECS console to automatically collect and analyze operational events without manually configuring EventBridge rules or CloudWatch log groups. We demonstrate how to enable Amazon ECS event capture with a single click and use the integrated query interface to investigate operational scenarios such as task failures, deployments, and resource constraints issues .

Learn how to manage your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters through simple conversations instead of complex kubectl commands or deep Kubernetes expertise. This post shows you how to use the new fully managed EKS Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server in Preview to deploy applications, troubleshoot issues, and upgrade clusters using natural language with no deep Kubernetes expertise required. We’ll walk through real scenarios showing how conversational AI turns multi-step manual tasks into simple natural language requests.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent returns to Las Vegas from December 1-5, 2025, bringing together the global cloud computing community for an unparalleled learning experience. This premier event is where cloud pioneers gather from across the globe for the latest AWS innovations, peer-to-peer learning, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking opportunities. The Amazon Elastic Container Service […]

In this post, we explore the latest Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode features that enhance security, network control, and performance for enterprise Kubernetes deployments. These new capabilities address critical operational challenges including capacity management, network segmentation, enterprise PKI integration, and comprehensive encryption while maintaining the automated cluster management that makes EKS Auto Mode transformative for development teams.

In this post, Amazon ECS announces support for IPv6-only workloads, allowing users to run containerized applications in IPv6-only environments without IPv4 dependencies while maintaining compatibility with existing applications and AWS services. The new capability helps organizations address IPv4 address exhaustion challenges, streamline network architecture, improve security posture, and meet compliance requirements for IPv6 adoption.

In this post, we explore how SOCI Parallel Pull Mode transforms container image pulls through configurable parallelization strategies, addressing performance bottlenecks in both download and unpacking phases. The solution demonstrates significant improvements in pull times, showing nearly 60% acceleration when tested with a 10GB Deep Learning Container image, making it particularly valuable for AI/ML workloads with large, complex images.

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 […]

Seekable OCI (SOCI) helps Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) customers reduce task launch times by starting containers before their images are fully downloaded. To ensure reliable deployments, Amazon ECS software version consistency ensures that the same container image is used throughout an ECS deployment. However, when running ECS tasks with SOCI, there was still […]