diff --git a/test/new-e2e/tests/containers/eks_test.go b/test/new-e2e/tests/containers/eks_test.go
index da1e21b0bc028..b244bf49767bb 100644
--- a/test/new-e2e/tests/containers/eks_test.go
+++ b/test/new-e2e/tests/containers/eks_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ type eksSuite struct {
 }
 
 func TestEKSSuite(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Skip("incident-26767: skip as test is failing on dockerhub rate limit")
 	suite.Run(t, &eksSuite{})
 }