Amazon EKS Bumps etcd Storage to 24 GB for Bigger Kubernetes Clusters

Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now packs a 50% larger etcd database (24 GB instead of 16 GB) on 4XL and 8XL tiers, letting you run massive clusters with way more pods, jobs, and custom resources without hitting storage walls. This is a game-changer for heavy workloads like AI/ML training, batch processing, and CI/CD pipelines that hammer Kubernetes with constant object updates—just upgrade to EKS 1.34+ and you're good to go across all commercial AWS regions.