Amazon EKS Auto Mode now runs the cluster for you—handling control plane updates, add-on management, and node rotation. It sticks to Kubernetes best practices so your apps stay up through node drains, pod failures, AZ outages, and rolling upgrades.
It also respects Pod Disruption Budgets, Readiness Gates, and topology constraints every step of the way. How? It's been hammered with resilience tests and came through steady.
