Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane
Containers Blog
This article announces Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane, a new feature enabling pre-allocated control plane capacity for demanding workloads requiring predictable performance.
- Three scaling tiers (XL, 2XL, 4XL) with defined API concurrency, pod scheduling rates, and database sizes
- Guarantees control plane responsiveness before peak demand arrives
- Handles instantaneous traffic bursts without requiring dynamic scaling
- Tiered pricing: $1.65/hr (XL), $3.40/hr (2XL), $6.90/hr (4XL)
- Available for Kubernetes 1.29+ on new and existing clusters
- Configurable via AWS Console, CLI, eksctl, CloudFormation, or Terraform
- Comprehensive monitoring through CloudWatch and Prometheus metrics
- Benchmarks show 4XL tier supports 40,000 nodes and 640,000 pods
EKS Provisioned Control Plane provides predictable, high-performance Kubernetes for AI/ML, SaaS platforms, and mission-critical applications requiring guaranteed control plane responsiveness.
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