Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a free container service that simplifies the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes as a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestrator service. Paying for only the virtual machines, and associated storage and networking resources consumed makes AKS the most efficient and cost-effective container service on the market.
| Free tier |
Standard tier
￥0.636 per cluster per hour |
Premium tier
￥3.82 per cluster per hour |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended for | Learning, exploration, experimenting | All mission critical, at scale or production workloads | All mission critical, at scale or production workloads requiring 2 years of support |
| Pricing for nodes | Only pay for what you use | Only pay for what you use | Only pay for what you use |
| Cluster management | Free | 1 Uptime SLA Hour | 1 Premium Support Hour |
| Service Level Agreement (SLA) | N/A | Financially backed API server uptime SLA | Financially backed API server uptime SLA |
| Long Term Support | Community support | Community support | Microsoft maintenance past community support |
| Kubernetes Control Plane | No Autoscaling | API Server Autoscaling | API Server Autoscaling |
| Smaller control plane limits | Larger control plane limits | Larger control plane limits | |
| AKS Cluster Node limit | 1,000 (not recommended at more than 10 node scale) | 5,000 | 5,000 |
Free Cluster Management
There is no charge for cluster management.
Pricing for nodes - only pay for what you use
Only pay for the virtual machines instances, storage and networking resources consumed by your Kubernetes cluster.
Option to add Uptime SLA
Financially-backed service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees an uptime of 99.95% for the Kubernetes API server for clusters that use Azure Availability Zone and 99.9% for clusters that do not use Azure Availability Zone.
| METER | PRICE |
|---|---|
| Uptime SLA | ￥0.636 per cluster per hour |
IP address options
Every Azure Cloud service containing one or more Azure Virtual Machines is automatically assigned a free dynamic virtual IP (VIP) address. For an additional charge, you can also get:
- Instance-level public IP addresses—A dynamic public IP address (PIP) that is assigned to a virtual machine for direct access.
- Reserved IP addresses—A public IP address that can be reserved and used as a VIP address.
- Load-balanced IP addresses—Additional load-balanced VIP addresses that can be assigned to an Azure Cloud Service containing one or more Azure Virtual Machines.
FAQ
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Why We have so much Azure Monitor cost after creating AKS?
Azure Monitor provide very powerful and useful logging and metrics for node and container metrics from AKS ,also result in some data ingestion costs. Please consider if Azure Monitor is needed when creating AKS and please disable Azure Monitor if unnecessary to avoid any cost. For more details ,please visit Azure Monitor Pricing Page .
Support & SLA
As a free service, AKS does not offer a financially-backed service level agreement. We will strive to attain at least 99.5% availability for the Kubernetes API server. The availability of the agent nodes in your cluster is covered by the Virtual Machines SLA. Please see the Virtual Machines SLA for more details.