diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
index e4a1df68e..f9ff6cc81 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix Kubernetes cluster domain parsing from resolv.conf, e.g. on AWS EKS.
+  We now only consider Kubernetes services domains instead of all domains (which could include non-Kubernetes domains) ([#895]).
+
+[#895]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/895
+
 ## [0.79.0] - 2024-10-18
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/fail/no-service-domain.conf b/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/fail/no-service-domain.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6342feff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/fail/no-service-domain.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+search cluster.local
+nameserver 10.243.21.53
+options ndots:5
diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/pass/aws-eks.resolv.conf b/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/pass/aws-eks.resolv.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9bdf6a6da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/fixtures/cluster_domain/pass/aws-eks.resolv.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+search default.svc.cluster.local svc.cluster.local cluster.local ec2.internal
+nameserver 172.20.0.10
+options ndots:5
diff --git a/crates/stackable-operator/src/utils/cluster_domain.rs b/crates/stackable-operator/src/utils/cluster_domain.rs
index 4a0b9bd4d..c690369f6 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-operator/src/utils/cluster_domain.rs
+++ b/crates/stackable-operator/src/utils/cluster_domain.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::{env, path::PathBuf, str::FromStr, sync::OnceLock};
 
-use snafu::{ResultExt, Snafu};
+use snafu::{OptionExt, ResultExt, Snafu};
 use tracing::instrument;
 
 use crate::commons::networking::DomainName;
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ pub enum Error {
     #[snafu(display(r#"unable to find "search" entry"#))]
     NoSearchEntry,
 
-    #[snafu(display(r#"unable to find unambiguous domain in "search" entry"#))]
-    AmbiguousDomainEntries,
+    #[snafu(display(
+        r#"unable to find the Kubernetes service domain, which needs to start with "svc.""#
+    ))]
+    FindKubernetesServiceDomain,
 }
 
 /// Tries to retrieve the Kubernetes cluster domain.
@@ -118,24 +120,25 @@ fn retrieve_cluster_domain_from_resolv_conf(
         })
         .context(ReadResolvConfFileSnafu)?;
 
-    // If there are multiple search directives, only the search
-    // man 5 resolv.conf
-    let Some(last_search_entry) = content
+    // If there are multiple search directives, only the last search directive is relevant.
+    // See `man 5 resolv.conf`
+    let last_search_entry = content
         .lines()
         .rev()
-        .map(|l| l.trim())
-        .find(|&l| l.starts_with("search"))
-        .map(|l| l.trim_start_matches("search").trim())
-    else {
-        return NoSearchEntrySnafu.fail();
-    };
-
-    let Some(shortest_entry) = last_search_entry
+        .map(|entry| entry.trim())
+        .find(|&entry| entry.starts_with("search"))
+        .map(|entry| entry.trim_start_matches("search").trim())
+        .context(NoSearchEntrySnafu)?;
+
+    // We only care about entries starting with "svc." to limit the entries to the ones used by
+    // Kubernetes for Services.
+    let shortest_entry = last_search_entry
         .split_ascii_whitespace()
-        .min_by_key(|item| item.len())
-    else {
-        return AmbiguousDomainEntriesSnafu.fail();
-    };
+        // Normally there should only be one such entry, but we take the first on in any case.
+        .find(|&entry| entry.starts_with("svc."))
+        // Strip the "svc." prefix to get only the cluster domain.
+        .map(|entry| entry.trim_start_matches("svc.").trim_end())
+        .context(FindKubernetesServiceDomainSnafu)?;
 
     // NOTE (@Techassi): This is really sad and bothers me more than I would like to admit. This
     // clone could be removed by using the code directly in the calling function. But that would