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AWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups

Published
May 5, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-backup-amazon-eks-performance-improvement/

AWS Backup for Amazon EKS Performance Improvement

AWS Backup for Amazon EKS now completes cluster state backups up to 10x faster. This performance improvement enables you to back up Amazon EKS clusters with a large number of namespaces and Kubernetes resources significantly faster, reducing backup windows from days to hours for the largest clusters.

AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon EKS along with other AWS services that span compute, storage, and databases. The performance improvement is automatically enabled at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where AWS Backup support for Amazon EKS is available.

Regional Availability

AWS Backup support for Amazon EKS is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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