Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity

AWS VPC has increased the default value for routes per route table from 50 to 500 entries.

Before this enhancement, customers had to request a limit increase to use more than 50 routes per VPC route table. Organizations often need additional routes to maintain precise control over their VPC traffic flows to insert firewalls or network functions in the traffic path, or direct traffic to peering connections, internet gateway, virtual private gateway or transit gateway. This enhancement automatically increases the route table capacity to 500 routes, mitigating administrative overhead and enables customers to scale their network architecture seamlessly as their requirements grow.

The new default limit will be automatically available for all route tables in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customer accounts without route quota overrides will automatically get 500 routes per VPC route table for their existing and new VPCs. Customer accounts with route quota overrides will not see any changes to their existing or new VPC setups. To learn more about this quota increase, please refer to our documentation.