## [Upgrade Plan for Amazon EKS v1.23](https://docs.rafay.co/blog/2023/08/25/upgrade-plan-for-amazon-eks-v123/)

In a short few weeks, on 11th Oct, 2023, Kubernetes clusters based on [Amazon EKS v1.23](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/kubernetes-versions.html#kubernetes-release-calendar) will reach **end of support**. In this blog, we describe Rafay's **[reference implementation](https://docs.rafay.co/clusters/fleetplan/reference-fleet-plans/eks/eks-1.23/)** of a fleet upgrade plan that will help users perform in-place upgrades of their **EKS v1.23** clusters to **EKS v1.24** with zero risk to application downtime.