Unable to make stargz-snapshotter work on EKS

[IdoKendo]

Hello,
I am very interested in this project so I wanted to check it out on my EKS cluster. I followed the instructions outlined in the INSTALL.md file, yet when I try to run a pod with eStargz compression I am getting the following error on the pod:

  Type     Reason                  Age               From               Message
  ----     ------                  ----              ----               -------
  Warning  FailedCreatePodSandBox  1s                kubelet            Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = NotFound desc = failed to create containerd container: error unpacking image: failed to extract layer sha256:488c353cf6b29038139724b7d66fa094a273716733ea8913c077248d7173cbf6: failed to get reader from content store: content digest sha256:e44986a4bcd27cd0b8a6fd46ef21422bf0d45a42d8721a087a9287192e9ceed9: not found

Kubernetes version: v1.31.9-eks-5d4a308

Worker node:

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"
SUPPORT_END="2025-06-30"

containerd config:

version = 2
root = "/var/lib/containerd"
state = "/run/containerd"
imports = ["/etc/containerd/config.d/*.toml"]

[grpc]
address = "/run/containerd/containerd.sock"

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd]
default_runtime_name = "runc"
snapshotter = "stargz"
disable_snapshot_annotations = false

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri"]
sandbox_image = "123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/pause:3.5"

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry]
config_path = "/etc/containerd/certs.d:/etc/docker/certs.d"

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.runc]
runtime_type = "io.containerd.runc.v2"

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".containerd.runtimes.runc.options]
SystemdCgroup = true

[plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".cni]
bin_dir = "/opt/cni/bin"
conf_dir = "/etc/cni/net.d"

[proxy_plugins]
  [proxy_plugins.stargz]
    type = "snapshot"
    address = "/run/containerd-stargz-grpc/containerd-stargz-grpc.sock"
    [proxy_plugins.stargz.exports]
      root = "/var/lib/containerd-stargz-grpc/"

I am guessing I might've missed something, or that I have done something wrong.
Would appreciate a guiding hand.

Thanks.