Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports deletion protection, helping you prevent accidental termination of your EKS clusters. When enabled, deletion protection requires explicit disablement before a cluster can be deleted, providing an additional safety control for critical environments. This feature is available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
Deletion protection is turned off by default for all new and existing clusters. You can enable deletion protection during cluster creation or any time after. To delete a protected cluster, you must first disable deletion protection for the cluster and then proceed with the cluster deletion. This two-step verification process helps prevent unintended deletions that could result from automation errors or accidental commands, especially in environments where multiple users share cluster management responsibilities.
Once enabled, any attempt to delete the cluster through the Management Console, EKS APIs, Command Line Interface (CLI), eksctl, or infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation will be blocked until deletion protection is disabled. To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation.