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Amazon EKS now supports local clusters on AWS Outposts with Amazon EC2 instance store

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AWS·4 weeks ago · Jun 11, 2026, 08:52 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Adds support for Amazon EKS local clusters on first‑ and second‑generation Outposts racks using EC2 instance‑store backed instances.
Provides an updated architecture with full parity to cloud EKS, including add‑ons, IAM Roles for Service Accounts, Pod Identity, OIDC authentication, access entries, and Bottlerocket worker nodes.
General availability across all commercial AWS regions; Outposts using EBS‑backed instances continue to use the original architecture.

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