Ingress NGINX Retirement Forces AWS Migration

The Kubernetes SIG Network and Security Response Committee announced Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026, ending security patches and updates. The move affects about 50% of cloud-native deployments and raises compliance and security risks for unpatched clusters. The article provides step-by-step migration guidance to AWS Load Balancer Controller, including ALB/NLB feature mappings and rewrite/TLS examples.