diff --git a/net/interfaces/interfaces_linux_test.go b/net/interfaces/interfaces_linux_test.go
index dde9987b0..8ae48adad 100644
--- a/net/interfaces/interfaces_linux_test.go
+++ b/net/interfaces/interfaces_linux_test.go
@@ -73,6 +73,32 @@ func TestExtremelyLongProcNetRoute(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// test the specific /proc/net/route path as found on AWS App Runner instances
+func TestAwsAppRunnerDefaultRouteInterface(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	savedProcNetRoutePath := procNetRoutePath
+	defer func() { procNetRoutePath = savedProcNetRoutePath }()
+	procNetRoutePath = filepath.Join(dir, "CloudRun")
+	buf := []byte("Iface\tDestination\tGateway\tFlags\tRefCnt\tUse\tMetric\tMask\tMTU\tWindow\tIRTT\n" +
+		"eth0\t00000000\tF9AFFEA9\t0003\t0\t0\t0\t00000000\t0\t0\t0\n" +
+		"*\tFEA9FEA9\t00000000\t0005\t0\t0\t0\tFFFFFFFF\t0\t0\t0\n" +
+		"ecs-eth0\t02AAFEA9\t01ACFEA9\t0007\t0\t0\t0\tFFFFFFFF\t0\t0\t0\n" +
+		"ecs-eth0\t00ACFEA9\t00000000\t0001\t0\t0\t0\t00FFFFFF\t0\t0\t0\n" +
+		"eth0\t00AFFEA9\t00000000\t0001\t0\t0\t0\t00FFFFFF\t0\t0\t0\n")
+	err := ioutil.WriteFile(procNetRoutePath, buf, 0644)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := DefaultRouteInterface()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if got != "eth0" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %s, want eth0", got)
+	}
+}
+
 func BenchmarkDefaultRouteInterface(b *testing.B) {
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {