AWS Platform Cost Visualizer

Estimate the monthly cost of running a Kubernetes platform on AWS. Adjust the topology and traffic on the left; the breakdown updates live. The control plane is a flat per-cluster fee — the dials that actually move the bill are worker compute, NAT, and data transfer.

Control plane

A flat managed fee per cluster — it does not scale with size.

Clusters

Kubernetes version support

Availability zones

Worker compute

The nodes your pods run on — usually the largest line.

Mode

Instance typeNode count

Purchase option

Networking

Data transfer is the third-biggest AWS line item — and the easiest to overlook.

NAT gateway strategy

Internet egress / month

Cross-AZ traffic / month

Load balancers (ALB)

Public IPv4 addresses

Storage

EBS gp3 provisioned

Estimated monthly

$565

$6,776 / year

EKS control plane1 cluster × $0.10/hr (standard)$73.0013%
Worker compute3 × m5.large @ $0.096/hr (On-Demand)$210.2437%
NAT gateway (hourly)3 gateways × $0.045/hr$98.5517%
NAT data processing1024 GB × $0.045/GB$46.088%
Internet egress1024 GB out (first 100 GB free)$83.1615%
Cross-AZ transfer1024 GB × $0.01/GB$10.242%
EBS storage (gp3)200 GB × $0.08/GB-mo$16.003%
Public IPv43 addresses × $0.005/hr$10.952%
Load balancers (ALB)1 × $0.0225/hr$16.433%

Total / month$564.65

us-east-1 list prices, 2026. Estimates only — excludes Savings Plan commitments beyond the flat multiplier, ELB LCU charges, ECR, snapshots, and inter-region transfer. Spot / Reserved figures are representative.