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Amazon EKS

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Available worldwide · Popular in: US

What is Amazon EKS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you run Kubernetes applications without managing, securing, or scaling a Kubernetes control plane. Supports deployment across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.

Independently observed

Amazon EKS pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.10/moUsage-based

From $0.10 per cluster per hour. No minimum fees or upfront commitments. Additional charges for compute resources (EC2, EBS, IP addresses, cross-AZ traffic).

Standard Kubernetes version support

$0.10 per cluster per hour (standard support for 14 months after release)

Extended Kubernetes version support

$0.60 per cluster per hour (extended support for 12 months after standard support ends)

What Amazon EKS does

The capabilities that matter for container orchestration tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Orchestration scope
Kubernetes
Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Standards
OCI / CRI compliant
-
CNCF Certified Kubernetes conformant
-
Security
Rootless operation
-
Architecture
Daemonless architecture
-
Platform
Windows containers
-
ARM architecture support
-
Workloads
GPU scheduling
-
Stateful workloads
-
Networking
Built-in networking / CNI
-
Ops
Vendor-managed control plane
✓
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
-
UX
GUI dashboard
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • On-premise

Amazon EKS alternatives

Other container orchestration tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon EKS, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 55 / 100
low · 29%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability500.178.8✓
Pricing Transparency750.075.3✓
Price Level800.053.8✓
Capabilities290.072.0✓
Integrations00.090.0-
Security Posture50.130.0-

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All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"both","orchestration":"kubernetes","managed_control_plane":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
Availability{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 50%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierNomediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Starting gbp0.1mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%