# Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service endpoints and quotas
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To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. AWS services offer the following endpoint types in some or all of the AWS Regions that the service supports: IPv4 endpoints, dual-stack endpoints, and FIPS endpoints. Some services provide global endpoints. For more information, see [AWS service endpoints](rande.md).

Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your AWS account. For more information, see [AWS service quotas](aws_service_limits.md).

The following are the service endpoints and service quotas for this service.

## Service endpoints
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[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/eks.html)

Additionally, the EKS API has dual-stack endpoints. The dual-stack endpoint was introduced in August 2024. To use the dual-stack endpoints with the AWS CLI, see the [Dual-stack and FIPS endpoints](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/feature-endpoints.html) configuration in the *AWS SDKs and Tools Reference Guide*. The following lists the new endpoints:

EKS API public endpoint  
`eks.region.api.aws`

IRSA OIDC Issuer URLs  
`oidc-eks.region.api.aws`

The following endpoint provides the Amazon EKS Auth API. The EKS Pod Identity Agent on your nodes connects to this endpoint to get the credentials for each pod.

[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/eks.html)

## Service quotas
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**Note**  
The default values are the initial quotas set by AWS. These default values are separate from the actual applied quota values and maximum possible service quotas. For more information, see [Terminology in Service Quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/intro.html#intro_getting-started) in the *Service Quotas User Guide*.

These service quotas are listed under ** Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) ** in the Service Quotas console. To request a quota increase for values that are shown as adjustable, see [Requesting a quota increase](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/request-quota-increase.html) in the *Service Quotas User Guide*.

## AWS Fargate service quotas
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The **AWS Fargate** service in the Service Quotas console lists several service quotas. The following table only describes the quota that is applicable to Amazon EKS.

New AWS accounts might have lower initial quotas that can increase over time. Fargate constantly monitors the account usage within each AWS Region, and then automatically increases the quotas based on the usage. You can also request a quota increase for values that are shown as adjustable. For more information, see [Requesting a quota increase](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/request-quota-increase.html) in the *Service Quotas User Guide*.


| Name | Default | Adjustable | Description | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
|  Fargate On-Demand vCPU resource count  | 6 | [Yes](https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/home/services/fargate/quotas) |  The number of Fargate vCPUs that can run concurrently as Fargate On-Demand in this account in the current Region.  | 

**Note**  
The default values are the initial quotas set by AWS. These default values are separate from the actual applied quota values and maximum possible service quotas. For more information, see [Terminology in Service Quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/intro.html#intro_getting-started) in the *Service Quotas User Guide*.

**Note**  
Fargate additionally enforces Amazon ECS tasks and Amazon EKS pods launch rate quotas. For more information, see [AWS Fargate throttling quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/throttling.html) in the *Amazon Elastic Container Service User Guide for AWS Fargate*.