Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37
AWS announced that Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37 in all EKS regions, including the GovCloud (US) Regions. Clusters can be created on 1.37 or upgraded through the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools. The source highlights Metrics API promotion to GA, DRA device taints and tolerations reaching GA, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero entering beta and enabled by default.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams running EKS can plan upgrades to 1.37 and can use EKS cluster insights to check for issues before upgrading. Autoscalers with minReplicas: 0 using object or external metrics will scale idle workloads to zero by default, which teams should account for in their scaling policies.
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