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Amazon EKS now lets you tune the scheduler, controller manager and API server. Four parameters shipped on 12 August 2026, and the headline autoscaling one needs a control plane tier costing $1.65 an hour.
CPU-based autoscaling scales GPU inference too late. A 2026 config guide to HPA, KEDA, external metrics and Karpenter, with YAML for queue-depth and scale-to-zero scaling of LLM inference on Kubernetes.
AWS's June 2026 container caching removes the ECR image pull from SageMaker scale-out. In AWS's own test a GenAI endpoint's cold start fell from 525 to 258 seconds. The benchmarks and when to use it.
In-place pod resize graduated to stable in Kubernetes v1.35, and pod-level resize reached beta in v1.36. What changed, what still forces a restart, and how to wire it to the Vertical Pod Autoscaler.
