Amazon EKS now offers a Provisioned Control Plane that allows users to pre-allocate control plane capacity for predictable and high performance during demanding workloads. This feature provides multiple scaling tiers to ensure responsiveness during peak traffic without needing to scale dynamically. Users can monitor and adjust their control plane tier as workload requirements change.

Google Cloud successfully tested a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, doubling the previous limit. The article details the architectural innovations that enable this scale and the implications for AI workloads, including advanced job scheduling and optimized storage solutions.