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EKS Auto Mode: What It Actually Changes (and What It Doesn’t)

What EKS Auto Mode is EKS Auto Mode, generally available on December 1, 2024, shifts more Kubernetes infrastructure responsibility from you to AWS. You still run an EKS cluster in your AWS account, and your workloads still use the Kubernetes API, but AWS takes over much of the compute, storage, networking, node lifecycle, and core add-on management that platform teams usually wire together themselves. For compute, Auto Mode uses Karpenter-style provisioning under the hood. When pods are unschedulable, Auto Mode provisions nodes that fit the workload’s requirements: instance family, size, architecture, capacity type, and availability zone. When capacity is no…