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EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons

Published
May 5, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/ec2-csi-eks/

Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Store CSI driver

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console and AWS CLI to install and manage the Amazon EC2 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. This enables a simple experience for attaching EC2 local instance store to an EKS cluster.

The Amazon EC2 Instance Store CSI driver is a plugin that allows Kubernetes to use EC2 instance store volumes. Instance store volumes provide ephemeral block-level storage physically attached to the host computer. The driver manages the lifecycle of these NVMe storage volumes and makes them available as Kubernetes persistent volumes.

This feature is available in all commercial regions. To get started and learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation.

Source: AWS release notes




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