Disabling EKS Auto Mode default Node Pools is not working as intended

[hendryanw]

Dear EKS docs team, kindly help to verify the following issue:

Link to related doc:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/set-builtin-node-pools.html

Issue

Executing the following to disable built-in nodepools is not working as intended

aws eks update-cluster-config \
  --name <cluster-name> \
  --compute-config '{"nodePools": []}'

The command resulted in the following error:

An error occurred (InvalidParameterException) when calling the UpdateClusterConfig operation: The type for cluster update was not provided.

Workaround

As a workaround, I've decided to delete the nodepools directly using kubectl. It seems to work just fine, but kindly let me know if it's the otherwise.

kubectl delete nodepools general-purpose
kubectl delete nodepools system