Amazon EKS Auto Mode Gets Pod-Level Security Groups

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now lets you assign individual security groups to Pods, enabling network-level segmentation without spinning up separate node pools. This means different workloads on the same node can have different security rules, and your Pods can directly access AWS resources like RDS and ElastiCache using standard VPC security group policies—all included at no extra cost on Kubernetes 1.36+ across all EKS Auto Mode regions.