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 ### Container Runtime
 
-For VPC CNI >=v1.12.0, IPAMD have switched to use an on-disk file `/var/run/aws-node/ipam.json` to track IP allocations, thus no longer requires access to Container Runtime Interface(CRI).
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+For VPC CNI >=v1.12.0, IPAMD have switched to use an on-disk file `/var/run/aws-node/ipam.json` to track IP allocations, thus became container runtime agnostic and no longer requires access to Container Runtime Interface(CRI) socket.
 
 For VPC CNI <v1.12.0, IPAMD still depends on CRI to track IP allocations using pod sandboxes information upon its starting.
 * By default the dockershim CRI socket was mounted but can be customized to use other CRI: