EKS : could not find any suitable subnets for creating the ELB

For people that may reach this question, I have faced the same error, but the problem was really simple.

The tag with key kubernetes.io/cluster/<cluster-name> had the wrong cluster name as the automation that deployed it was wrong.


In EKS 1.16, I need internet-facing NLB.

The root cause in EKS is that you haven't selected a public subnet while creating the cluster.

After creating the cluster EKS will not allow to update subnets as of now here

To resolve the issue, I have performed the below steps

  1. created a public subnet in the same vpc of EKS
  2. Attached IGW in route tables in new created public subnets
  3. Added below tags in public subnets
  4. kubernetes.io/cluster/<EKSClusterName> : shared

Note: In a 4th step, Replace your EKS cluster name in placeholder EKSClusterName


By default AWS EKS only attaches load balancers to public subnets. In order to launch it in a private subnet you need to not only label your subnets (which it looks like you did) but also annotate your load balancer-

service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-internal: "true"

You can find more information here.