aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The AWS VPC CNI plugin is a Kubernetes networking plugin that assigns VPC IP addresses to pods using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS. It consists of a CNI plugin that wires pod networking and an ipamd daemon that manages a warm pool of IP addresses per node.

Use cases

• give Kubernetes pods routable VPC IP addresses on AWS
• run EKS clusters with native VPC networking
• manage warm pools of pod IPs to speed up pod scheduling
• configure max pods per node based on ENI IP limits
• set up IAM policies for the CNI plugin

When to choose

• you run Kubernetes on AWS or EKS and want pods to have native VPC networking
• you need pods to be directly reachable from other VPC resources
• you want AWS-supported IPAM with warm IP pools for fast pod startup

When to avoid

• your cluster runs outside AWS or you don't need VPC-native pod IPs
• you prefer overlay networking like Calico or Cilium with network policy features
• you need a cloud-agnostic CNI across multiple providers

Facets

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networking container-orchestration middleware cloud-computing networking infrastructure-as-code cloud go cni-plugin aws vpc pod-networking elastic-network-interfaces ipam eks containers devops kubernetes linux docker

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