AWS ALB finally supports URL rewriting – goodbye nginx ingress
If you’ve run services on EKS, you’ve probably had the same frustration I have: AWS Application Load Balancer is great for TLS termination and routing, but the moment you need URL rewriting, you’re stuck deploying nginx as a reverse proxy behind it. Two load balancers, an extra pod to maintain, and one more thing to patch. That’s finally over. AWS added native URL rewriting to ALB in October 2025, and the timing couldn’t be better – the Kubernetes community announced that Ingress NGINX is retiring on March 31, 2026. The last reason to run nginx on EKS just disappeared. ...