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.
A flat managed fee per cluster — it does not scale with size.
The nodes your pods run on — usually the largest line.
Data transfer is the third-biggest AWS line item — and the easiest to overlook.
Estimated monthly
$565
$6,776 / year
Prices for us-east-1. EC2, EKS, NAT, EBS, IPv4 and ALB rates are fetched live from the AWS Price List API when credentials are configured; internet-egress tiers and cross-AZ are curated constants. Estimates only — excludes Savings Plan commitments beyond the flat multiplier, ELB LCU charges, ECR, snapshots, and inter-region transfer. Spot / Reserved figures are representative.