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Amazon EKS pricing and limits

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aws.amazon.com/eks · Managed Kubernetes
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AWS's managed Kubernetes control plane, billed per cluster per hour with nodes charged separately as EC2 or Fargate.

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Entry paid plan$0.10 per cluster per hour on standard Kubernetes version support — roughly $73 a year before any node runs. Extended version support, for clusters kept on an older Kubernetes release, is $0.60 per cluster per hour.
Free tierNo
CategoryManaged Kubernetes

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 6 criteria comparedSources last checked

Amazon EKS pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$0.10 per cluster per hour on standard Kubernetes version support — roughly $73 a year before any node runs source ↗
Pricing model
Per cluster per hour for the control plane, with the rate rising sixfold if you stay on an unsupported Kubernetes version source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

A cluster that has to sit inside AWS — IAM on the cluster, VPC networking, EC2 or Fargate nodes — with a 99.95% control-plane SLA measured in five-minute intervals rather than described in prose.

Consider something else if…

You run many small clusters. $0.10 an hour is about $73 a year each before a node exists, and it becomes $0.60 an hour the moment you fall behind on Kubernetes versions — DigitalOcean charges nothing for the control plane at all.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Amazon EKS pricing

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Free tierNo
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Entry paid plan$0.10 per cluster per hour on standard Kubernetes version support — roughly $73 a year before any node runs. Extended version support, for clusters kept on an older Kubernetes release, is $0.60 per cluster per hour.
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  • Amazon EKS Pricing ↗

    “Kubernetes Version Support Tier Pricing Standard Kubernetes version support $0.10 per cluster per hour Extended Kubernetes version support $0.60 per cluster per hour”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing · Report a correction

Pricing modelPer cluster per hour for the control plane, with the rate rising sixfold if you stay on an unsupported Kubernetes version. Nodes, EKS Auto Mode, add-on capabilities and hybrid nodes are each metered separately on top.
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Deployment

1 criteria
ContainersSupported
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Infrastructure

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AutoscalingSupported
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Uptime SLA99.95% monthly for the Kubernetes endpoint of a Standard Control Plane cluster, measured in five-minute intervals.
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  • Amazon EKS Service Level Agreement ↗

    “AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Kubernetes endpoint for an Amazon EKS Cluster with the Standard Control Plane available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.95% during any monthly billing cycle, measured in 5-minute intervals”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official site · Report a correction

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Amazon EKS pricing questions

How much does Amazon EKS cost?

$0.10 per cluster per hour on standard Kubernetes version support — roughly $73 a year before any node runs. Extended version support, for clusters kept on an older Kubernetes release, is $0.60 per cluster per hour.

Amazon EKS Pricing · read

How does Amazon EKS charge?

Per cluster per hour for the control plane, with the rate rising sixfold if you stay on an unsupported Kubernetes version. Nodes, EKS Auto Mode, add-on capabilities and hybrid nodes are each metered separately on top.

Amazon EKS Pricing · read

Does Amazon EKS have a free tier?

No.

Amazon EKS Pricing · read

What uptime does Amazon EKS guarantee?

99.95% monthly for the Kubernetes endpoint of a Standard Control Plane cluster, measured in five-minute intervals.

Amazon EKS Service Level Agreement · read

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