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Fix pod distribution drift in Amazon EKS with the Kubernetes descheduler

calendar_today September 28, 2026 person Ramya D domain amazon-eks

A workload spread across three Availability Zones does not necessarily stay spread. This post explains why soft topology spread constraints drift after a node-availability gap, measures the cost, and shows how the Kubernetes descheduler restores even pod distribution on Amazon EKS without downtime and without forcing hard constraints.

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