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# of pods are essentially capped by the worker node choice.

below excerpt from: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/blob/master/files/...

  # Mapping is calculated from AWS EC2 API using the following formula:
  # * First IP on each ENI is not used for pods
  # * +2 for the pods that use host-networking (AWS CNI and kube-proxy)
  #
  #   # of ENI * (# of IPv4 per ENI - 1) + 2
  #
  # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html#AvailableIpPerENI

doc on EC2 instance types ("Amazon EKS recommended maximum pods for each Amazon EC2 instance type") https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/choosing-in...