We are super happy to announce the release of the new 24.04 LTS Ubuntu-EKS images on AWS for EKS 1.31 and above.
You can get the AMI ID using AWS CLI or our image finder.
EKSCTL support is coming soon.
Using AWS CLI
aws ssm get-parameters --names /aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/eks/24.04/1.31/stable/current/amd64/hvm/ebs-gp3/ami-id
You can change eks for eks-pro to launch the Pro-enabled version.
Learn more about finding Ubuntu images using AWS CLI here
Using AWS Marketplace
Searching for Ubuntu 24.04 EKS will provide the exact listings as shown below:
About Ubuntu-EKS Images
Ubuntu server EKS images are optimized AMIs that run as worker nodes in Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). They include the AWS-optimized kernel, a slimmed-down minimal version of Ubuntu, and are optimized for performance and security on EKS clusters. They also come with the Kubernetes worker node related softwares such as kubelet and kubectl.