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EKS Auto Mode

Overview

EKS Auto Mode is a feature that implements automatic scaling and management capabilities for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters within the Container Platform. See ticket 8274 for the initial implementation.

EKS Auto Mode Managed Components

At time of writing, EKS Auto Mode manages:

  • Karpenter, for auto-scaling the compute of your cluster
  • AWS Load Balancer Controller to allow you to easily expose Kubernetes services via automated Elastic Load Balancer integration
  • VPC CNI
  • Cluster DNS
  • kube-proxy
  • EBS CSI
  • EKS Pod Identity Agent
  • EKS Node Monitoring Agent

See the AWS EKS Auto Mode documentation for the latest features.

This page was last reviewed on 24 July 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 24 January 2027 by the page owner #cloud-platform-notify .