Amazon EKS now supports local clusters on AWS Outposts with Amazon EC2 instance store

Today, AWS is expanding support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) local clusters on AWS Outposts to first-generation and second-generation AWS Outposts racks running Amazon EC2 instances that boot from Amazon EC2 instance store. AWS Outposts offers static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store , and AWS is now extending that benefit to Amazon EKS local clusters customers. With local clusters, the entire Kubernetes control plane runs on AWS Outposts, supporting advanced data residency requirements and mitigating the risk of impact from temporary network discon