## [In-Place Upgrades to Amazon EKS v1.26 using Rafay](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2023/07/28/in-place-upgrades-to-amazon-eks-v126-using-rafay/)

In our [recent release in July](https://docs.rafay.co/releasenotes/2023/july/), we added support for in-place upgrades of existing [EKS clusters](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/eks/overview/) to Kubernetes v1.26. Customers tell us that they wish to be extremely careful with **in-place upgrades** of their **existing** EKS clusters because there is no benefit in rushing this and impacting mission critical applications etc. Provisioning of **new** EKS v1.26 clusters using Rafay has been [supported](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2023/06/08/amazon-eks-v126-clusters-using-rafay/) for a while now.

Note

Organizations that wish to perform sophisticated checks for API deprecation etc are strongly recommended to use Rafay's **Fleet Operations** for Amazon EKS.