The overlay routing feature for EKS traffic allows Prisma® AIRS™ AI Runtime: Network Intercept to eliminate traffic hairpinning. This is achieved by enabling direct egress from the intercept to next-hop destinations like Internet Gateways (IGWs) and NAT Gateways. This new capability prevents traffic from being double-inspected, which reduces latency, bandwidth usage, and resource consumption.

With overlay routing, Prisma AIRS can now function as a single component for both security inspection and network address translation, simplifying the network architecture. It consolidates these functions into a single step, ensuring comprehensive security for containerized workloads while maintaining an efficient and direct traffic flow.