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AWS eks medium security documentation change

Service: eks · 2025-05-25 · Security-related medium

File: eks/latest/userguide/al2023.md

Summary

Removed specific reference to Docker deprecation in EKS 1.24+

Security assessment

Removal of Docker deprecation notice could impact security awareness. Docker removal is a security hardening measure (CVE-2021-41089, CVE-2022-24769), but the change reduces visibility of this security-related information.

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diff --git a/eks/latest/userguide/al2023.md b/eks/latest/userguide/al2023.md
index 46531b7d3..6363e537e 100644
--- a//eks/latest/userguide/al2023.md
+++ b//eks/latest/userguide/al2023.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ To contribute to this user guide, choose the **Edit this page on GitHub** link t
-The Amazon EKS optimized AMIs are available in two families based on AL2 and AL2023. AL2023 is a new Linux-based operating system designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance environment for your cloud applications. It’s the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services and is available across all supported Amazon EKS versions, including versions `1.23` and `1.24` in extended support.
+The Amazon EKS optimized AMIs are available in two families based on AL2 and AL2023. AL2023 is a new Linux-based operating system designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance environment for your cloud applications. It’s the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services and is available across all supported Amazon EKS versions.
@@ -48,2 +47,0 @@ In AL2, the metadata from these parameters was discovered from the Amazon EKS `D
-  * Docker isn’t supported in AL2023 for all supported Amazon EKS versions. Support for Docker has ended and been removed with Amazon EKS version `1.24` or greater in AL2. For more information on deprecation, see [Migrate from dockershim to containerd](./dockershim-deprecation.html).
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