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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 Amazon infrastructure. If you are running nodes on your own infrastructure, see [Configure CNI for hybrid nodes](hybrid-nodes-cni.md). This chapter includes the following topics for learning more about networking for your cluster.

**Topics**
+ [Add an existing VPC Subnet to an Amazon EKS cluster from the management console](#add-existing-subnet)
+ [View Amazon EKS networking requirements for VPC and subnets](network-reqs.md)
+ [Create an Amazon VPC for your Amazon EKS cluster](creating-a-vpc.md)
+ [View Amazon EKS security group requirements for clusters](sec-group-reqs.md)
+ [Manage networking add-ons for Amazon EKS clusters](eks-networking-add-ons.md)

## Add an existing VPC Subnet to an Amazon EKS cluster from the management console
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1. Navigate to your cluster in the management console

1. From the **Networking** tab select **Manage VPC Resources** 

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

To create a new VPC Subnet:
+  [Review EKS Subnet Requirements](network-reqs.md#network-requirements-subnets) 
+ See [Create a Subnet](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/vpc/latest/userguide/create-subnets.html) in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.