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6 articlesEKS clusters lag on an AWS auth deprecation, per The New Stack
The New Stack reports that 81% of Amazon EKS clusters still run an AWS EKS authentication method the vendor has deprecated. For platform teams whose deploy pipelines target EKS, the number reads as a migration flag against the auth path baked into kubeconfigs, CI service accounts and IaC modules.
Aug 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoRunners & infrastructureMulti-gigabyte image pulls are now the EKS cold-start problem
The New Stack walks through why container image pull time has become a first-class bottleneck on Amazon EKS, driven by machine-learning workloads that ship in much larger images than a typical application. Pull latency is now something CI/CD and platform teams have to design for, not wait out.
Aug 12, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoRunners & infrastructureGPUs keep falling off the PCIe bus, and standard node health does not notice
AWS engineers write up what running Kubernetes at Amazon EKS scale taught them about GPU node failure, and why the default node health model has nothing to say when the GPU just vanishes from the bus.
Jul 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoRunners & infrastructureAWS puts gray zone failures into the EKS control loop
The New Stack details how AWS treats non-obvious availability zone degradation as its own category on EKS, with zonal shift moving traffic away from an impaired zone before the traditional alarms fire. For CI/CD teams, it reframes what a regional resilience test needs to cover.
Jul 12, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringAWS reworks the EKS control plane and starts selling it in sized tiers
Amazon EKS engineers detail a set of architectural changes to how the service runs the Kubernetes control plane, including a purpose-built journal that replaces etcd's Raft consensus, and a new tier-priced product, EKS Provisioned Control Plane, that lets customers reserve API and scheduling capacity ahead of bursty workloads.
Jul 1, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoIncident responseAWS pushes its DevOps Agent's diagnostic reach down to the EKS node via a custom MCP server
AWS has published a pattern for extending its autonomous DevOps Agent into EKS node OS and runtime data through a custom Model Context Protocol server, addressing incidents that live outside the agent's native cluster-control-plane visibility. The post is explicit that the implementation is a proof of concept, not a production replacement for monitoring or log shipping.
Jun 17, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo