Eliminate Standing and Excess Privileges in Your EKS Environment

Enable Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-Enough Access (JEA) for EKS resources

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Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a fully managed Kubernetes service on AWS that simplifies running containerized applications in the cloud. It automatically manages the Kubernetes control plane, handles scaling and security, and integrates with AWS services like EC2, IAM, and CloudWatch. This allows developers to focus on building and deploying applications while AWS manages the infrastructure and cluster operations.

Integration Overview:

Apono helps organizations achieve Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by eliminating permanent access to privileged systems, cloud environments, databases, and other critical resources.

Through its integration with EKS, Apono continuously discovers all EKS resources — including clusters, namespaces, secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, StatefulSets, ingresses, CronJobs, and Jobs — while enabling security teams to enforce granular, dynamic, and context-aware access policies tailored to specific R&D teams and use cases.
For example:

Admin/DevOps Access for temporary elevated privileges for break-glass scenarios or general maintenance.
Developer Access provides mid-tier permissions for everyday tasks, such as deploying applications and troubleshooting within their own namespace.
Support Engineer Access limited to specific namespaces to retrieve logs, without requiring full cluster visibility.

With just-in-time (JIT) and just-enough-access (JEA) provisioning, access is granted only when needed and automatically revoked, reducing over-privileged accounts, minimizing the attack surface, and maintaining operational agility without compromising security.

Use Cases

JIT and Just Enough Access

Provision real-time access to EKS resources – namespaces, secrets and more.
Ensure right-sized permissions and enforce strict controls on access provisioning.
Minimize unauthorized access risk and reduce the blast radius of security breaches.

Secure Break-glass Access

Grant just-in-time, task-specific access to on-call engineers during incidents.
Scope and revoke access automatically based on context from OnCall and ITSM tools.
Ensure fast, secure incident response while enforcing least-privilege access to your EKS environment.

Risk and Compliance

Achieve Zero Standing Privilege by reducing over-privileged and unused permissions to EKS resources by over 96%.
Protect sensitive data (PII, PHI, PCI) and simplify audits with detailed reporting, anomaly detection, and full access logs.
Meet your customer security demands with granular access controls and full visibility into EKS resource access.

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DevOps Engineer