Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters

Amazon EKS Updates

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers a 99.99% Service Level Agreement (SLA) for clusters running on Provisioned Control Plane, up from the 99.95% SLA offered on standard control plane. Additionally, Amazon EKS introduces the 8XL scaling tier, the largest available Provisioned Control Plane tier.

Provisioned Control Plane allows you to select your cluster's control plane capacity from a set of well-defined scaling tiers, ensuring the control plane is pre-provisioned and ready to handle traffic spikes or unpredictable bursts. The higher 99.99% SLA is measured in 1-minute intervals, providing a more granular and stringent availability commitment for mission-critical workloads. The new 8XL tier offers double the Kubernetes API server request processing capacity of the next lower 4XL tier, enabling workloads such as ultra-scale AI/ML training, high-performance computing (HPC), and large-scale data processing.

What to do

• Review the new SLA and 8XL tier details.
• Consider upgrading to the Provisioned Control Plane for enhanced availability and performance.
• Check the Amazon EKS Service Level Agreement and EKS pricing for more information.

Source: AWS release notes

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