What AMIs can I use with Kubernetes 1.33?
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I'm trying to find an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) suitable for Kubernetes version 1.33, but I can't seem to locate any options in the AMI catalog. Are there really no AMIs available for this version?
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For Kubernetes 1.33 on EKS, you should know that the Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) AMI is no longer supported. You'll want to check out either AL2023 or Bottlerocket instead. According to the latest GitHub release, here are the official AMIs provided by AWS:
- amazon-eks-node-al2023-x86_64-standard-1.33-v20250627
- amazon-eks-node-al2023-x86_64-neuron-1.33-v20250627 (for ARM/Inferentia)
- amazon-eks-node-al2023-x86_64-nvidia-1.33-v20250627 (for GPU)
- amazon-eks-node-al2023-arm64-standard-1.33-v20250627
- amazon-eks-node-al2023-arm64-nvidia-1.33-v20250627
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HelpfulHannah: Exactly! The documentation explains it well. You can check it out here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-ami-deprecation-faqs.html#:~:text=AWS%20will%20end%20support%20for,bug%20fixes%20after%20this%20date.