Cloudbees Core 2.176.4.3 depends (somehow) on an outdated version of the AWS SDK, which pre-dates fine-grained IAM role support for EKS.

This means that plugins which use the AWS SDK can either:

• Hold back their dependency to be compatible with Cloudbees Core - and break support for this EKS feature.
• Hold back their dependency and then ask regular Jenkins users to specifically upgrade their AWS SDK plugin version - with the complication that entails.
• Upgrade their dependency, and break compatibility with this Cloudbees Core version.

None of these is ideal (in fact I’ve had a Jenkins-on-EKS user get in touch already about this problem). So Cloudbees Core needs to have its AWS SDK dependency updated to at least 1.11.623.