diff --git a/pkg/providers/amifamily/resolver.go b/pkg/providers/amifamily/resolver.go
index 6ab62d975a34..4ca065c5036e 100644
--- a/pkg/providers/amifamily/resolver.go
+++ b/pkg/providers/amifamily/resolver.go
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ func (r Resolver) resolveLaunchTemplate(nodeClass *v1.EC2NodeClass, nodeClaim *k
 		kubeletConfig = &v1.KubeletConfiguration{}
 	}
 	if kubeletConfig.MaxPods == nil {
+		// nolint:gosec
+		// We know that it's not possible to have values that would overflow int32 here since we control
+		// the maxPods values that we pass in here
 		kubeletConfig.MaxPods = lo.ToPtr(int32(maxPods))
 	}
 	taints := lo.Flatten([][]corev1.Taint{