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Amazon VPC CNI now supports higher bandwidth and network performance per pod

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Amazon VPC CNI Plugin now supports attaching multiple network interfaces to pods, enhancing network performance for Kubernetes workloads.

  • Enables leveraging full bandwidth of Amazon EC2 instances with multiple network cards
  • Particularly beneficial for AI, ML, and HPC use cases
  • Previously, pods were assigned one elastic network interface (ENI)
  • Now supports multi-homed pods with multiple network card interfaces
  • Distributed application traffic across multiple concurrent ENI connections
  • Available in version 1.20.0 across commercial and GovCloud AWS Regions

This enhancement allows users to maximize network performance and bandwidth for Kubernetes-based applications by utilizing multiple network interfaces per pod.

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