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Amazon EKS Capabilities now supports Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs

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Amazon EKS now supports CloudWatch Vended Logs, simplifying observability for managed controllers like Argo CD and ACK.

What: Customers can now route logs from AWS-managed EKS Capabilities—including Argo CD, ACK, and kro—directly into CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose via CloudWatch Vended Logs, with no additional EKS-specific charges.

Why it matters: This integration removes the overhead of manually managing log collection for auxiliary Kubernetes controllers, centralizing them within AWS's native logging infrastructure.

Takeaway: Enable log delivery for your Argo CD or ACK controllers through the AWS Console or CloudWatch APIs to gain centralized visibility into managed controller operations.

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Vended Logs: A type of CloudWatch log stream provided by AWS services that bypasses standard log group ingestion costs, often billed based on data volume or delivery destination.
ACK (AWS Controllers for Kubernetes): A tool that allows users to manage AWS services directly from a Kubernetes cluster using standard custom resources.

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Amazon EKS Capabilities now supports Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capabilities can now be configured as log delivery sources using Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs. This enables customers to monitor and troubleshoot their EKS Capabilities for Argo CD, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), and kro (Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator) by monitoring logs collected from the managed controllers that run in AWS-managed infrastructure.

Customers can enable log delivery for each capability using CloudWatch APIs or the AWS Console. Logs are configured as a CloudWatch Vended Logs delivery source, enabling reliable, secure log delivery to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose destinations.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where the EKS Capabilities feature is supported. Standard CloudWatch Vended Logs pricing applies based on the chosen destination. There is no additional EKS charge.

To learn more about EKS Capabilities, visit the Amazon EKS documentation.

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