Update this afternoon has caused all connections to AWS EKS clusters to fail

[tomkcook]

Describe the bug
Since updating this afternoon (10 Nov 2025) I am unable to connect to any EKS cluster. Connections to a local microk8s cluster still work.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open Lens
2. Select any configured cluster

Expected behavior
Display the usual selection of objects (Overview, Applications, Nodes...)

Instead, I see icon for "Connection failed" in the tree view.

I am still able to access the same clusters using kubectl.

Screenshots
Detailed error message is attached.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Lens Version: 2025.10.230725-latest
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04
• Installation method apt install from http://downloads.k8slens.dev/apt/debian

Logs:
When you run the application executable from command line you will see some logging output. Please paste them here:

There is no logging output when I run /opt/Lens/lens-desktop.

Kubeconfig:
kubectl still works and .kube/config has not changed since Lens was working earlier today.

[Tixon123]

Hello @tomkcook,

Thank you for reaching out to Lens support!

Thank you for reporting a bug.

We are working on your issue. Stand by for further updates.

Best Regards,
Tikhon Kudinov
Lens Support Engineer
Mirantis, Inc

[clrothmann]

Hi @tomkcook,

The key error is:

exec: executable aws failed with exit code 1

This means Lens couldn’t run the AWS CLI to get your EKS credentials.
Could you please check just these two things:

Is the AWS CLI available and working?
Run this in a terminal:

which aws
aws --version

If you use AWS SSO, please re-authenticate once:

aws sso login

Then retry connecting to the EKS cluster in Lens.