[micah_chatt]

EKS Engineer here. This is something we have lots of thoughts about and want to make better in EKS on AWS.

For EKS Anywhere, you can configure your cluster with OIDC auth today, and IAM auth is coming very soon. https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/90

[bogomipz]

Could you shed some light on why this was done this way? Was there a technical reason for not uasing ARNs or unique IDs?