Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Kubernetes Gateway API

Amazon EKS Auto Mode Updates

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports the Kubernetes Gateway API, providing a standard, portable way to define how traffic reaches applications. This feature allows customers to configure application load balancing using Gateway and HTTPRoute resources, with EKS Auto Mode automatically provisioning and managing the underlying AWS infrastructure.

What to do

• Adopt the next-generation Kubernetes traffic management standard without installing or configuring a separate controller.
• Configure HTTP and gRPC routing, cross-namespace traffic routing, weighted traffic splitting, header-based routing, and automatic TLS certificate discovery.
• Existing workloads using Ingress resources will continue to work alongside Gateway API resources.

To get started, see the Amazon EKS documentation. Gateway API support is included as part of EKS Auto Mode and is available in all AWS Regions where EKS Auto Mode is supported. Standard charges apply for the AWS load balancing resources provisioned.

Source: AWS release notes

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