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2026-03-04

Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.34

#kubernetes  #upgrade  #eks 

We are rolling out EKS v1.34. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. This upgrade brings Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) to stable, introduces pod-level resource requests and limits as beta, and deprecates AppArmor in favour of seccomp and Pod Security Standards.

Timeline:

  • Testing & rollout to non-production clusters has happened in the past days
  • Production rollouts are expected to finish at the end of next week

Important changes between K8s 1.33 and 1.34

This following list is a selection of the most important changes in Kubernetes 1.34 from a user point of view:

  • Pod-level Resource Requests and Limits (Beta): Pods can now define shared resource pools at the pod level, simplifying resource management for multi-container pods. Instead of summing up resources across all containers, you can define aggregate CPU and memory limits once at the pod level.
  • Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) - Stable: The DRA core APIs have graduated to general availability, enabling more efficient and flexible allocation of GPUs and other specialised hardware devices to workloads.
  • Image Volumes (Beta): You can now mount content from OCI container registries directly as read-only volumes inside your pods, without needing to run them as containers. This is useful for distributing configuration files, ML models, or other data artifacts via container registries. See the Image Volumes documentation for usage examples.
  • VolumeAttributesClass graduated to stable: The VolumeAttributesClass API has graduated from storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 to storage.k8s.io/v1. We have updated this on your behalf in our storage class definitions.

For detailed info on what’s new and changed, please make sure to check the Kubernetes 1.34 release announcement and the full Kubernetes 1.34.x changelog.

EKS specific updates

AWS EKS 1.34 announcement and release notes.

In the process of upgrading EKS, we have also upgraded the following components:

  • AWS EKS AMI to the latest version v20260224
  • KubeProxy to v1.34.3-eksbuild.5
  • EBS CSI Driver to v1.56.0-eksbuild.1
  • CSI Snapshot Controller to v8.5.0-eksbuild.1
  • Node Monitoring Agent to v1.5.2-eksbuild.1