Update Windows compatibility hint to recommend AL2023 instead of AL2 - #8714
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Awesome. Thanks for the update!
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Amazon EKS stopped publishing EKS-optimized Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) AMIs as of
November 26, 2025, and AL2 itself reaches end of life on June 30, 2026.
AL2 AMIs no longer receive software updates, security patches, or bug fixes.
The Windows compatibility warning currently suggests creating a Linux node group
with
AmazonLinux2. This updates the hint to recommendAmazonLinux2023instead,so users are guided toward a supported AMI family.
Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-ami-deprecation-faqs.html
Checklist
README.md, or theuserdocsdirectory)area/nodegroup) and kind (e.g.kind/improvement)