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Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now offers a 24 GB etcd database on 4XL and 8XL tiers

Published
November 11, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/amazon-eks-provisioned-control-plane-larger-etcd-database/

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers a larger 24 GB etcd database, up from 16 GB, for 4XL and 8XL Provisioned Control Plane clusters. This increase provides more capacity for Kubernetes objects, benefiting workloads such as large-scale AI/ML training, batch processing, and CI/CD pipelines.

What to do

  • Choose the 4XL or 8XL tier of Provisioned Control Plane on a cluster running EKS version 1.34 or later.
  • Existing clusters on the 4XL and 8XL tiers running these versions get the larger database automatically, with no action required.

The 24 GB etcd database is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Provisioned Control Plane is available. To learn more, see the Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane user guide.




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