Amazon EKS introduces enhanced network security policies
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This article announces enhanced network security policy capabilities in Amazon EKS, enabling improved network security for Kubernetes workloads and cluster-external integrations.
- Central enforcement of network access filters across entire EKS clusters
- DNS-based policies to secure egress traffic from cluster environments
- ClusterNetworkPolicy for cluster-wide network filtering management
- FQDN-based egress rules prevent unauthorized access to external resources
- Available in all commercial AWS Regions for Kubernetes 1.29+ clusters
- DNS policies supported only in EKS Auto Mode-launched EC2 instances
- Requires VPC CNI v1.21.0 or later
EKS now provides enhanced network segmentation and centralized security policy management for improved Kubernetes cluster protection.
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