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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service pricing

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service costs from $0.10/unit usage-based on its cheapest paid plan; 6 plans in all, as listed on aws.amazon.com — prices checked 22 Sep 2026.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service pricing at a glance

Plans Paid No free plan — trial or paid only. Prices checked 22 Sep 2026.
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service plans & pricing

PlanPriceKey limits
Standard Kubernetes version support$0.10/unit usage-based $0.10 per cluster per hour
  • Managed Kubernetes control plane
  • Standard support for Kubernetes versions
Extended Kubernetes version support$0.60/unit usage-based $0.60 per cluster per hour; includes standard support pricing plus $0.50 per cluster per hour
  • Extended support for Kubernetes versions
Provisioned Control Plane XL$1.65/unit usage-based In addition to standard Amazon EKS cluster pricing
  • Additional provisioned control-plane capacity
Provisioned Control Plane 2XL$3.40/unit usage-based In addition to standard Amazon EKS cluster pricing
  • Additional provisioned control-plane capacity
Provisioned Control Plane 4XL$6.90/unit usage-based In addition to standard Amazon EKS cluster pricing
  • Additional provisioned control-plane capacity
Provisioned Control Plane 8XL$13.90/unit usage-based In addition to standard Amazon EKS cluster pricing
  • Additional provisioned control-plane capacity

Prices as published by the vendor on aws.amazon.com, checked 22 Sep 2026; taxes and regional pricing may differ. We do not change a plan's price or its limits — this table is what the vendor's own pricing page said on that date.

What the price includes

  • Built for
    Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
  • Integrations
    16 integrations: Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS CloudTrail …
  • Free plan
    No
  • Paid from
    $0.10/unit usage-based
  • Multi-cluster management
    Yes

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Prices checked by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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