Expose Amazon EKS pods through cross-account load balancer https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/expose-amazon-eks-pods-through-cross-account-load-balancer/

Simplified EKS access https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/amazon-eks-controls-iam-cluster-access-management/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/a-deep-dive-into-simplified-amazon-eks-access-management-controls/ https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/34982

While using Loki with S3 and Dynamodb it’s mandatory to add provision_config details as default might affect your budget https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/configuration/#provision_config [provisioned_write_throughput: <int> | default = 3000] # DynamoDB table default read throughput. # CLI flag: -<prefix>.read-throughput [provisioned_read_throughput: <int> | default = 300]

Keep the cloud provider platform secure Least privilege Secure traffic into cluster Run security test in development environments Mirror environments Cluster authentication & authorization Leverage OIDC for k8s authentication RBAC - define roles In cluster network/security/micro segmentation Prevent namespace-to-namespace communication Network policy Policy & Governance k8s admission controllers Read only Non-privileges ports Runtime security & monitoring...

You can now launch NAT Gateways in your VPC without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises environments and thus, do not need an internet gateway attached to their VPCs. More details: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/aws-removes-nat-gateways-dependence-on-internet-gateway-for-private-communications/

What’s new in Grafana v8.0 Grafana includes built-in support for Prometheus Alertmanager. Once you add it as a data source, you can use the Grafana alerting UI to manage silences, contact points as well as notification policies. A drop down option in these pages allows you to switch between Grafana and any configured Alertmanager data sources. https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/alertmanager/ Prometheus metrics browser https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/prometheus/#metrics-browser More details: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-in-v8-0/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-load-balancer-controller-version-2-2-available-support-nlb-instance/

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now natively supports Predictive Scaling so you can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. Predictive Scaling can help you avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only available via AWS Auto Scaling Plans.) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-introduces-predictive-scaling-native-scaling-policy/