EKS Cluster Pricing?

 EKS Cluster Pricing.

Very Important EKS Pricing Note

• EKS is not free (Unlike other AWS Services)
• In short, no free-tier for EKS.

EKS Cluster Pricing

- We pay $0.10 per hour for each Amazon EKS cluster
- Per Day: $2.4
- For 30 days: $72
Ye cost tab bhi lagegi agar koi node ya pod active na ho, kyunki AWS cluster ke control plane (API server, etcd, etc.) ko manage karta hai.
 

EC2 Worker Nodes (If Using Managed/Unmanaged Nodes)

• Aap jitne EC2 instances use karte ho (nodes), unka normal EC2 pricing lagega.

For example:

• t3.medium = $0.0416 per hour (us-east-1)
• 2 nodes × 24 hrs × 30 days ≈ $60 per node/month (approx)

 Ye price depend karta hai:

• Instance type
• Region
• On-demand vs Spot

Other Costs (Optional but Common)

Service	Purpose	Charges
EBS	Volumes for Pods	~$0.10 per GB/month
NAT Gateway	For internet access in private subnet	~$0.045 per hour + data usage
Load Balancer	For external/internal services	~$0.025 per hour + data usage
CloudWatch	Logs & metrics	Pay-as-you-go (volume-based)
VPC Traffic	Data transfer between zones/vpc	Based on traffic

 

Cost-Saving Tips:

• Use Fargate if you want to avoid EC2 node cost
• Use Spot Instances
• Delete idle clusters (still incur $0.10/hr!)
• Use Savings Plans or Reserved Instances for long-term usage

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/