--- title: Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes... description: Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37. New clusters can be created and existing ones upgraded to 1.37 via the EKS console, eksctl, or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-support-kubernetes-version-1-37-tjij28qe6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37 | daily.dev og:description: Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37. New clusters can be created and existing ones upgraded to 1.37 via the EKS console, eksctl, or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-support-kubernetes-version-1-37-tjij28qe6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tjiJ28qe6.png og:image:alt: Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37 **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37. New clusters can be created and existing ones upgraded to 1.37 via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools, across all AWS Regions including GovCloud (US). Version 1.37 promotes the Metrics API to general availability as metrics.k8s.io/v1, graduates Dynamic Resource Allocation device taints and tolerations to general availability, and moves Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero to beta (enabled by default), allowing autoscalers with minReplicas: 0 to scale idle workloads down to zero pods. EKS cluster insights can be used to check for upgrade-impacting issues, and EKS Distro builds are available via ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What new features does Kubernetes 1.37 bring to Amazon EKS? Kubernetes 1.37 on Amazon EKS promotes the Metrics API to general availability as metrics.k8s.io/v1, providing pod and node CPU/memory usage for the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and kubectl top. Dynamic Resource Allocation device taints and tolerations also reach general availability, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero graduates to beta, enabled by default for autoscalers using minReplicas: 0. _Teams planning the upgrade can follow Kubernetes release changes like this on daily.dev._ ### How do I upgrade an existing Amazon EKS cluster to Kubernetes 1.37? Existing EKS clusters can be upgraded to Kubernetes 1.37 using the EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or an infrastructure-as-code tool, and the update works in all AWS Regions where EKS is available, including AWS GovCloud (US). EKS cluster insights can be used beforehand to check for issues that might impact the upgrade. _Developers tracking EKS upgrade steps and gotchas can follow these updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-supports-kubernetes-version-1-36-josnj3qub) · AWS · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Kubernetes v1.36 Promotes Stability, Compatibility & Reproducibility](https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-v1-36-promotes-stability-compatibility-reproducibility-q5x4goaqb) · Cloud Native Now · 14 upvotes · 0 comments - [Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks](https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-amazon-eks-clusters-with-confidence-using-kubernetes-version-rollbacks-xcjphofhr) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-support-kubernetes-version-1-37-tjij28qe6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-support-kubernetes-version-1-37-tjij28qe6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-and-amazon-eks-distro-now-support-kubernetes-version-1-37-tjij28qe6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T18:08:04.575Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T18:13:45.169Z","description":"Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37. 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