Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports security groups for Pods

This article announces that Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports security groups for Pods, enabling network-level segmentation and fine-grained access control.

• Apply dedicated EC2 security group rules to individual Pods on the same node
• Different workloads can carry different security groups without separate node pools
• Pods can access resources like RDS and ElastiCache using VPC security group rules
• Define Pod security groups using SecurityGroupPolicy resources
• Included at no additional charge for Kubernetes 1.36+ clusters
• Available in all AWS Regions where EKS Auto Mode is supported

Security groups for Pods extends AWS network controls to the Pod level, providing granular network segmentation and simplified access management for containerized workloads.