[EKS] [request]: AWS Health Event Automatic Remediation for the managed nodegroups
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**Tell us about your request**
What do you want us to build?
Time to time the AWS deprecates the EC2, its internal hardware or failures in the AZs or retire the EC2, these can be part of a managed nodegroup of an EKS cluster. These events comes to the customer as part of AWS Health dashboard notifications. Customers has to manage such nodes manually, we want to do it automatically. The MNGs should take-care of such nodes programmatically as anyway this will be enforced on the customer after the given date.
Additionally, the team can build it in such a way that it should be an opt-in functionality that we would need to explicitly configure when creating the ManagedNodeGroup resources. If we tell you it's safe to do it, and it turns out not to be, that's customer's fault. Kubernetes as a product offers enough features to allow us to make it safe.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
If it's not solved than customers have to do it manually so that their applications running on the certain nodes doesn't get impacted. Many times customers with bigger or multiple EKS clusters may have this issue where they have to use a dedicated resource to look into this node replacement, which can be easily be solved using automated process. Also, since it's "MANAGED" by AWS, why can't an EC2 service can talk to EKS service and do it anyway?
**Are you currently working around this issue?**
Manually
**Additional context**
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Research direction
Start by reviewing how AWS Health dashboard notifications identify deprecated, failing, or retiring EC2 instances in EKS managed nodegroups. The request does not name files, tests, or an implementation entry point. Done would require a defined, safe, explicitly opt-in automatic remediation flow for affected nodes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, kubernetes
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100