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AWS eks documentation change

Service: eks · 2025-07-01 · Documentation low

File: eks/latest/userguide/create-node-class.md

Summary

Added note about Volume Encryption using custom KMS key for root and data volumes

Security assessment

Documents existing security feature (encryption with KMS keys) but does not indicate a security vulnerability being addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/eks/latest/userguide/create-node-class.md b/eks/latest/userguide/create-node-class.md
index d6bfc9291..48e326ea6 100644
--- a//eks/latest/userguide/create-node-class.md
+++ b//eks/latest/userguide/create-node-class.md
@@ -206,0 +207,2 @@ For information about deploying CloudFormation stacks, see [Getting started with
+  * **Volume Encryption** \- EKS users the configued custom KMS key to encrypt the read-only root volume of the instance and the read/write data volume.
+