AWS how to increase EIP quota

For self-hosted customers in AWS, your EKS cluster requires at least one address to be assigned during cluster operation for an outbound NAT gateway (AWS charges may apply, check with your AWS or Release salesperson). The cluster and services inside the cluster use the NAT IP as an egress point for all traffic going to the internet. This gateway allows you to monitor, secure, limit, and whitelist outgoing traffic from your cluster.

By default, your AWS account is limited to a maximum of five static VPC Elastic IP (EIP) addresses. If you need more EIP addresses, you will need to open an AWS support case.

We recommend allocating additional EIP addresses in batches of five. Most Release customers request the VPC EIP limit to be increased to 10, 15, or 20.

The image below should guide you in how to increase the VPC EIP quota for your account. Be sure to select the correct region, limit type, and quota value.

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