Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion

Document history Help improve this page To contribute to this user guide, choose the Edit this page on GitHub link that is located in the right pane of every page. The following table describes some of the major updates and new features for the Amazon EKS User Guide. August 27, 2025 AWS managed policy updates Added permission to AmazonEKSServiceRolePolicy. This role can attach new access policy AmazonEKSEventPolicy. Restricted permissions for ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate and ec2:TerminateInstances. AmazonEKSServiceRolePolicy AmazonEKSEventPolicy ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate ec2:TerminateInstances August 26, 2025 Cross-service confused deputy prevention Added a topic with an example trust policy that you can apply for Cross-service confused deputy prevention. Amazon EKS accepts the aws:SourceArn and aws:SourceAccount conditions in the trust policy of an EKS cluster role. aws:SourceArn aws:SourceAccount August 19, 2025 Amazon EKS platform version update This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This includes new patch versions of Kubernetes 1.33.2 , 1.32.6 , 1.31.10 , and 1.30.14. 1.33.2 1.32.6 1.31.10 1.30.14 July 30, 2025 VPC CNI Multi-NIC feature for multi-homed pods Amazon EKS adds multi-homed pods to the VPC CNI. Now you can configure a workload and the VPC CNI assigned IP addresses from every NIC on the EC2 instance to each pod. The application can make concurrent connections to use the bandwidth from each NIC.