Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Kubernetes Gateway API
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This article announces that Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports the Kubernetes Gateway API, enabling standard traffic management without separate controller installation.
- Configure application load balancing using Gateway and HTTPRoute resources
- Support for HTTP and gRPC routing with cross-namespace traffic routing
- Weighted traffic splitting and header-based routing capabilities
- Automatic TLS certificate discovery through AWS Certificate Manager
- Existing Ingress resources continue to work alongside Gateway API
- Available in all AWS Regions where EKS Auto Mode is supported
EKS Auto Mode customers can adopt next-generation Kubernetes traffic management standards with automatic AWS infrastructure provisioning and management.
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