Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter: Simplifying Kubernetes operations

Dima Breydo, Principal SA, AWS · Eliran Mesika, Senior SA, AWS · Fadi Tuma, Senior DevOps Engineer, Bluevine

AWS Summit Tel Aviv 2026 · AWS for Containers and Platform Engineering · 37 min · 16 pages

"Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter automate Kubernetes operations on AWS, enabling teams to focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure. In this session, discover how EKS Auto Mode fully automates cluster management—continuously selecting optimal EC2 instance types, dynamically scaling resources, and handling core add-ons, upgrades, and AWS service integration. Explore how Karpenter provides advanced node provisioning that optimizes for cost, performance, and availability across diverse workload types."

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