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Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress

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This article announces customer-routed control plane egress for Amazon EKS, enabling organizations to route outbound Kubernetes API server traffic through their own Amazon VPC.

  • Route admission webhook callbacks, OIDC provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests through your VPC
  • Control routing, security groups, and egress paths for API server traffic
  • Access private OIDC providers and webhook servers within your VPC
  • Set controlPlaneEgressMode to CUSTOMER_ROUTED when creating or updating clusters
  • Enforce organization-wide using eks:controlPlaneEgressMode IAM condition key with SCPs
  • Available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where EKS is available

Customer-routed control plane egress helps organizations meet data perimeter requirements and compliance mandates by controlling how Kubernetes API traffic routes through their network.



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