Default Configuration results in "The Launch Configuration creation operation is not available"

[chrisvander]

What happened?

With a standard EKS Cluster setup, I run into an error stating

The Launch Configuration creation operation is not available in your account. Use launch templates to create configuration templates for your Auto Scaling groups.

Launch configurations were deprecated.

Example

Standard setup in a new account should throw the issue:

const eksCluster = new eks.Cluster("cluster", {});

Output of pulumi about

CLI
Version      3.135.0
Go Version   go1.23.1
Go Compiler  gc

Plugins
KIND      NAME    VERSION
resource  auth0   3.7.1
resource  aws     6.50.1
resource  awsx    2.14.0
resource  eks     2.8.1
language  nodejs  unknown
resource  random  4.16.6

Host
OS       darwin
Version  15.0
Arch     arm64

Additional context

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