Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capabilities, an extensible set of Kubernetes-native solutions that streamline workload orchestration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resource management, and Kubernetes resource composition and orchestration. These fully managed, integrated platform capabilities include open source Kubernetes solutions that many customers are using today, such as Argo CD, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, and Kube Resource Orchestrator.

With EKS Capabilities, you can build and scale Kubernetes applications without managing complex solution infrastructure. Unlike typical in-cluster installations, these capabilities actually run in EKS service-owned accounts that are fully abstracted from customers.

With AWS managing infrastructure scaling, patching, and updates of these cluster capabilities, you can use the enterprise reliability and security without needing to maintain and manage the underlying components.

Here are the capabilities available at launch:

• Argo CD – This is a declarative GitOps tool for Kubernetes that provides continuous continuous deployment (CD) capabilities for ...