Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin supports “prefix assignment mode”, enabling you to run more pods per node on AWS Nitro based EC2 instance types. To achieve higher pod density, the VPC CNI plugin leverages a new VPC capability that enables IP address prefixes to be associated with elastic network interfaces (ENIs) attached to EC2 instances. You can now assign /28 (16 IP addresses) IPv4 address prefixes, instead of assigning individual secondary IPv4 addresses to network interfaces. This significantly increases number of pods that can be run per node.