Moderate to move
EKS on UpCloud: what it becomes and what it costs.
On UpCloud, EKS becomes UpCloud Managed Kubernetes. Manifests stay the same; the control plane becomes yours to run on Hetzner, or the destination’s managed Kubernetes elsewhere. Worker nodes are already in the EC2 line.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
25% of today
This line is the control-plane fee ($73/mo per cluster, $438 with extended support); nodes bill under EC2. Three CX23 for a k3s control plane are €16.5 ≈ $19, about 25% of $73.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
In three modelled AWS accounts
What EKS costs in the modelled accounts and what the estimator makes of it on UpCloud, with the default assumptions. Not customer data.
| Account | AWS /mo | UpCloud /mo | Change | Priced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale-up on Kubernetes$24,950/mo in total | $220 | $55 | −$165 | ratio |
| Data-heavy platform$79,640/mo in total | $440 | $110 | −$330 | ratio |
Your own EKS line, from your export
Drop one month of your AWS cost export and the report prices every service, EKS included, on UpCloud list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.