# AWS increases EKS cluster-state storage to 24 GB on its largest control-plane tiers

_Published Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS says Amazon EKS now provides a 24 GB etcd database, up from 16 GB, on its 4XL and 8XL Provisioned Control Plane tiers. The database stores Kubernetes cluster state; its capacity limits how many objects, including pods, jobs and custom resources, a cluster can hold.

The increase provides 50% more capacity for workloads such as AI training, inference and batch processing. A full database prevents users from adding or changing cluster objects. Eligible existing clusters receive the increase automatically, but they must run EKS version 1.34 or later. Availability covers all commercial AWS Regions offering Provisioned Control Plane.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/amazon-eks-provisioned-control-plane-larger-etcd-database/)

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