Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.35

Amazon EKS ยท 2026-01-28

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Technical Details

Affected Versions 1.35
Regions all
Migration Required Yes
Cost Impact Neutral
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Kubernetes 1.35 on EKS introduces operational efficiencies with in-place pod resource updates and prefer-same-node traffic distribution.

For Platform Teams

Infrastructure-as-code tools need to be updated to support the creation and upgrade of EKS clusters to Kubernetes 1.35.

For Executives

Adoption of Kubernetes 1.35 on Amazon EKS enhances our platform's competitiveness and operational efficiency.

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