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Configure networking for Amazon EKS clusters

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Your Amazon EKS cluster is created in a VPC. Pod networking is provided by the Amazon VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for nodes that run on AWS infrastructure. If you are running nodes on your own infrastructure, see Configure a CNI for hybrid nodes. This chapter includes the following topics for learning more about networking for your cluster.

Add an existing VPC Subnet to an Amazon EKS cluster from the management console

  1. Navigate to your cluster in the management console

  2. From the Networking tab select Manage VPC Resources

  3. From the Subnets dropdown, select additional subnets from the VPC of your cluster.

To create a new VPC Subnet:

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