Kubernetes
7 posts
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EKS Auto Mode: the third bill (2026)
EKS Auto Mode adds a management fee that varies by instance type, on top of EC2 and the control plane. And split cost allocation does not divide it.
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EKS extended support: $0.10 to $0.60 (2026)
EKS extended support is six times the control plane rate, on a published date, enabled by default. Once a cluster is in it you cannot turn it off.
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AWS Cost Optimization Hub: the gaps (2026)
EKS spend counts toward Cost Optimization Hub's efficiency score but generates no recommendations, so a wasteful cluster raises the number.
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ECS split cost allocation data vs EKS (2026)
SCAD covers ECS tasks too, but ECS gets no service-generated tags and no GPU splitting. Plus the row count formula.
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Container Insights pricing on EKS (2026)
Container Insights with enhanced observability is $51.75 a month on AWS's 10-node example. Turning it off costs $101.73.
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Find every Kubernetes cluster in AWS (2026)
eks list-clusters misses two of three Kubernetes populations. The flag for connected GKE and AKS, the EC2 tag scan, and the dedup.
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EKS split cost allocation data (2026)
The three measurement options in EKS split cost allocation data, why the choice matters, and the Fargate-derived 9:1 CPU-to-memory weighting.