Announcing Amazon EKS Auto Mode
Today at re:Invent, AWS announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode, a new feature that fully automates compute, storage, and networking management for Kubernetes clusters. Amazon EKS Auto Mode simplifies running Kubernetes by offloading cluster operations to AWS, improves the performance and security of your applications, and helps optimize compute costs.
You can use EKS Auto Mode to get Kubernetes conformant managed compute, networking, and storage for any new or existing EKS cluster. This makes it easier for you to leverage the security, scalability, availability, and efficiency of AWS for your Kubernetes applications. EKS Auto Mode removes the need for deep expertise, ongoing infrastructure management, or capacity planning by automatically selecting the best EC2 instances to run your application. It helps optimize compute costs while maintaining application availability by dynamically scaling EC2 instances based on demand. EKS Auto Mode provisions, operates, secures, and upgrades EC2 instances within your account using AWS-controlled access and lifecycle management. It handles OS patches and updates and limits security risks with ephemeral compute, which strengthens your security posture by default.
EKS Auto Mode is available today in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. You can enable EKS Auto Mode in any EKS cluster running Kubernetes 1.29 and above with no upfront fees or commitments—you pay for the management of the compute resources provisioned, in addition to your regular EC2 costs.
To get started with EKS Auto Mode, use the EKS API, AWS Console, or your favorite infrastructure as code tooling to enable it in a new or existing EKS cluster. To learn more about EKS Auto Mode and how it can streamline your Kubernetes operations, visit the EKS Auto Mode feature page and see the AWS News launch blog.