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EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to install and manage the Amazon [Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/lis-csi.html) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. This launch enables a simple experience for attaching a EC2 local instance store to an EKS cluster. The Amazon EC2 Instance Store CSI driver is a plugin that enables Kubernetes to use EC2 instance store volumes. Instance store volumes provide ephemeral block-level storage that is physically attached to the host computer. The driver manages the lifecycle of these NVMe storage volumes and makes them available as Kubernetes [persistent volumes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/). This feature is available in all commercial regions. To get started and learn more visit the [Amazon EKS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks.html).