Launch templates

We strongly recommend that all Auto Scaling groups use launch templates to ensure full functionality for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Amazon EC2.

If you use Auto Scaling groups and you need to require the use of IMDSv2 on all new instances, your Auto Scaling groups must use launch templates.

• Karpenter strongly recommends against using custom launch templates

See also

• Autoscaling, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Kubernetes autoscaling, Karpenter, Launch templates, eksctl create cluster --asg-access