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AWS eks documentation change

Service: eks · 2026-01-16 · Documentation low

File: eks/latest/userguide/eks-outposts-self-managed-nodes.md

Summary

Converted markdown links to plain URLs for Kubernetes certificate documentation

Security assessment

Formatting change to external links. The security content about kubelet certificate rotation was pre-existing and not modified.

Diff

diff --git a/eks/latest/userguide/eks-outposts-self-managed-nodes.md b/eks/latest/userguide/eks-outposts-self-managed-nodes.md
index 805dc736e..22d290875 100644
--- a//eks/latest/userguide/eks-outposts-self-managed-nodes.md
+++ b//eks/latest/userguide/eks-outposts-self-managed-nodes.md
@@ -56 +56 @@ You can create a self-managed node group for local cluster with the following to
-  * The certificates used by kubelet on your self-managed nodes are issued with one year expiration. By default certificate rotation is **not** enabled (see: [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/config-api/kubelet-config.v1beta1/#kubelet-config-k8s-io-v1beta1-KubeletConfiguration](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/config-api/kubelet-config.v1beta1/#kubelet-config-k8s-io-v1beta1-KubeletConfiguration)), this means if you have a self-managed node running for more than one year, it will no longer be able to authenticate to the Kubernetes API.
+  * The certificates used by kubelet on your self-managed nodes are issued with one year expiration. By default certificate rotation is **not** enabled (see: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/config-api/kubelet-config.v1beta1/#kubelet-config-k8s-io-v1beta1-KubeletConfiguration), this means if you have a self-managed node running for more than one year, it will no longer be able to authenticate to the Kubernetes API.
@@ -60 +60 @@ You can create a self-managed node group for local cluster with the following to
-  * Alternatively you can also enable client certificate rotation (see: [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tls/certificate-rotation/](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tls/certificate-rotation/)) when creating the self-managed node groups to make sure kubelet certificates are renewed as the current certificate approaches expiration.
+  * Alternatively you can also enable client certificate rotation (see: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tls/certificate-rotation/) when creating the self-managed node groups to make sure kubelet certificates are renewed as the current certificate approaches expiration.