AWS eks high security documentation change
Summary
Added documentation entry for June 11, 2025 platform version update with security fixes and EKS Pod Identities target role feature.
Security assessment
Explicitly mentions 'security fixes' in the platform version update entry, indicating resolution of security vulnerabilities. The Pod Identities update also relates to credential management security.
Diff
diff --git a/eks/latest/userguide/doc-history.md b/eks/latest/userguide/doc-history.md index 2c19c990c..638b00ab9 100644 --- a//eks/latest/userguide/doc-history.md +++ b//eks/latest/userguide/doc-history.md @@ -17,0 +18 @@ Change| Description| Date +[Amazon EKS platform version update](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/platform-versions.html)| This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. There aren’t any new patch versions of Kubernetes in these platform version.| June 11, 2025 @@ -19,0 +21 @@ IPv6 access control for dual-stack public endpoints for new IPv6 clusters| | Jun +[Target secondary and cross-account roles with EKS Pod Identities](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/pod-id-assign-target-role.html)| Amazon EKS adds _target IAM roles_ to EKS Pod Identities for automated role chaining. You can use this to automatically assume a role in another account and EKS Pod Identity rotates the temporary credentials. Each Pod Identity association must have an IAM role in the same account to assume first, then it uses that role to assume the target role.| May 30, 2025