Amazon EKS and EKS Distro Support Kubernetes Version 1.37 with Key Enhancements

Amazon EKS and EKS Distro added support for Kubernetes 1.37, featuring promoted APIs and autoscaling improvements for container management.

By Eva Hart · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-10-02 · 1 min read

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With Kubernetes 1.37 support, Amazon EKS enables cluster creation and upgrades incorporating new features including the general availability of the Metrics API for CPU and memory usage monitoring, and Dynamic Resource Allocation device taints and tolerations for refined resource scheduling.

Additionally, the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero feature reached beta and is enabled by default, permitting workloads to scale down to zero pods when idle and resume automatically on demand. This Kubernetes version support is available across all AWS Regions where EKS operates, including GovCloud, with EKS Distro builds accessible via public repositories.

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Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37 ↗

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