Mike Stefaniak

Our focus recently has been reducing the time for cluster updates. We are in the process of rolling out changes that will reduce cluster version upgrade time down to ~12...

We have partially solved at least one of the reasons why this request was opened in the first place > When we deployed the central VPC Endpoint for EKS com.amazonaws.${region}.eks...

Reopening the issue as I provided incorrect guidance before, please see the updated comment https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/2038#issuecomment-2278450601

We will look into this. Can you elaborate on where Pod Identity is not meeting your needs currently?

Thanks for the feedback > kubernetes.io/role/cni=1 & additional tag to determine which cluster pods or kubernetes.io/role/cni={cluster-name} tag on security groups to be assigned to pods based from specific clusters Do...

This has been addressed, docs are in being process of being updated https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-eks-user-guide/pull/1085

There is already a relevant issue opened in Karpenter https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/issues/5382, which I think is the right place to solve this, not Bottlerocket SSM params.

Which region are you running in?

We are aware of pod identity issue and working on fix asap