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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) reached the end of standard security maintenance on May 31, 2025.

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This PR supersedes #8470, #8597, and #8650, which were previously marked as stale and automatically closed.

The latest EKS version supported by Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu Pro 20.04 EKS images was Kubernetes 1.29. EKS 1.29 has since reached the end of both standard and extended support.

Ubuntu Pro extends security maintenance for the operating system, but it does not extend the Amazon EKS support lifecycle for Kubernetes 1.29. Therefore, there are no currently supported EKS versions that use these image families.

Remove the Ubuntu2004 and UbuntuPro2004 AMI families from eksctl. Users should migrate to a newer supported Ubuntu release and EKS version.

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  • Added tests that cover your change (if possible)
  • Added/modified documentation as required (such as the README.md, or the userdocs directory)
  • Manually tested
  • Made sure the title of the PR is a good description that can go into the release notes
  • (Core team) Added labels for change area (e.g. area/nodegroup) and kind (e.g. kind/improvement)

BONUS POINTS checklist: complete for good vibes and maybe prizes?! 🤯

  • Backfilled missing tests for code in same general area 🎉
  • Refactored something and made the world a better place 🌟

JessicaJang and others added 2 commits August 26, 2026 00:39
Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) reached end-of-life
on May 31, 2025.

Discontinue support for this EOL release.
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