The partnership between AWS and Kong has led to the creation of two Kong Konnect AWS EKS Terraform Blueprints AddOns, which are designed to facilitate the deployment of Kong Konnect instances on Amazon EKS. These AddOns leverage the AWS EKS Blueprints in Terraform to streamline the setup of production-ready EKS clusters by incorporating AWS best practices and community-wide standards. The Kong AddOns enable the deployment of Kong Gateway data planes, either independently or alongside the Kong Ingress Controller, with seamless integration with Kong Konnect. This setup provides a production-ready mechanism for managing data plane certificates, utilizing AWS Secrets Manager for secure storage and automatic injection of secrets as Kubernetes resources. The process involves configuring AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) and deploying necessary external operators and CRDs to achieve secure mTLS connections between the control plane and data planes. The blog post outlines the steps required to bootstrap an EKS cluster with Kong Konnect, emphasizing the speed and automation of provisioning through Terraform scripts, and invites community feedback to enhance the project's scope and utility.