Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management

This article announces Amazon EKS Capabilities, a new set of fully managed Kubernetes-native solutions for workload orchestration and AWS cloud resource management.

• Includes Argo CD, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), and Kube Resource Orchestrator (KRO)
• Runs in AWS-managed accounts, eliminating customer infrastructure management burden
• AWS handles scaling, patching, and updates automatically
• Argo CD enables GitOps continuous deployment with 45% CNCF production adoption
• ACK allows direct AWS resource management from Kubernetes clusters
• KRO simplifies custom resource creation and management for platform teams
• Enable via EKS console, AWS CLI, or eksctl with independent capability selection
• Automatic upgrades with breaking change analysis and conflict detection
• ACK supports resource adoption from Terraform and CloudFormation
• Available in commercial AWS regions with pay-as-you-go pricing

EKS Capabilities streamlines Kubernetes operations by providing managed foundational services, allowing teams to focus on business-differentiated features rather than infrastructure maintenance.