But if you follow the link the under the "components" section of your link you will see the link to the project proposal:

https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/blob/master/propos...

There they clearly state:

>"To run Kubernetes over AWS VPC, we would like to reach following additional goals:

Networking for Pods must support high throughput and availability, low latency and minimal jitter comparable to the characteristics a user would get from EC2 networking"