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Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36

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This article announces that Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.36, which includes several new features and improvements.

  • User Namespaces promoted to general availability for enhanced container security
  • Mutating Admission Policies enable CEL-based resource mutations without webhooks
  • In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling allows CPU/memory resizing without restart
  • Resource Health Status reporting identifies hardware-caused crash loops
  • Available in all AWS Regions including GovCloud (US)
  • Create new clusters or upgrade existing clusters via console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code

AWS EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.36 globally, enabling users to leverage new security and resource management capabilities.

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