Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been given a Kubernetes refresh from the hyperscaler and open source giant SUSE.

The offering, dubbed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capabilities, aims to streamline workload orchestration, AWS cloud resource management, and Kubernetes resource composition and orchestration with open source integrations including Argo CD, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, and Kube Resource Orchestrator.

“You can build and scale Kubernetes applications without managing complex solution infrastructure. Unlike typical in-cluster installations, these capabilities actually run in EKS service-owned accounts that are fully abstracted from customers,” wrote Channy Yun, principal developer advocate for AWS Cloud.

Yun added EKS Capabilities are cluster-scoped administrator resources, with resource permissions configured through Amazon’s identity and access management (IAM) tool. Additional configuration for single sign-on are needed for applications such as Argo CD.

Amazon EKS is also set up to automatically update cluster capabilities enabled by administrators as well as related dependencies

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), meanwhile, offers resource adoption features that enable migration of existing AWS resources into ACK management. The tool also provides read-only resources that Amazon said help facilitate a step-wise migration from provisioned resources with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation into EKS Capabilities.

The launch of the Kubernetes tool coincided with SUSE and AWS extending their partnership to integrate the former’s enterprise open source solutions with Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock.

Revealed at AWS re:Invent 2025, the integration fits in SUSE's Enterprise Container Management, which relies on Kubernetes via Rancher Prime. SUSE positioned the partnership as leveraging cloud for AI growth while supporting cloud migrations and allowing developers to work with the latest tools in the AWS environment.

The integration also supports SUSE’s Business Critical Linux solutions, as well as new Supplementary Packages for the Amazon Linux (SPAL) service.

"For a decade and a half, we have acted as a proven foundation for critical enterprise workloads on AWS," said Christine Puccio, global VP, AWS Growth Strategy at SUSE. "Combining SUSE’s open source solutions with AWS leadership, we are designing to simplify and standardize cloud-native operations. It's not merely an upgrade; it's engineering that fundamentally expands our position in AI and modern cloud infrastructure."