## [Amazon EKS v1.27 Clusters using Rafay](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2023/08/11/amazon-eks-v127-clusters-using-rafay/)

In our [recent release](https://docs.rafay.co/releasenotes/2023/aug/), we added support for new [EKS cluster](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/overview/) provisioning based on Kubernetes v1.27.

Customers have shared with us that they would like to provision **new** EKS clusters using **new** Kubernetes versions so that they do not have to plan/schedule for Kubernetes upgrades for these clusters **right away**. For the last few releases, we have introduced support for **new cluster provisioning** for the new Kubernetes version first and then follow up with support for **zero touch in-place upgrades**.