Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode now offers significantly reduced management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types. Beginning July 1, 2026, G-series Auto Mode management fees are reduced by 35%, and P-series and AWS Trainium fees are reduced by 60%. These reductions apply automatically to all EKS Auto Mode clusters and no action is required from customers already using GPU instances with Auto Mode.

EKS Auto Mode simplifies Kubernetes operations by automatically provisioning and managing infrastructure for machine learning inference, fine-tuning, rendering, and batch processing workloads. It includes capabilities built for accelerated workloads: automatic parallel image pulling and unpacking on GPU instances with local NVMe storage, so large container and model images start faster, and accelerator-aware node repair that detects GPU hardware failures and automatically replaces unhealthy nodes. With today's price reduction, customers can run GPU workloads on Auto Mode at lower management fees, making its fully managed infrastructure more cost-effective.

This pricing update is available in all AWS Regions where EKS Auto Mode is available. Amazon ECS is implementing identical management fee reductions for GPU instances on ECS Managed Instances. See the ECS What's New post for details.

To get started with GPU workloads on EKS Auto Mode, see the EKS for AI/ML documentation. For the complete updated rate table, see Amazon EKS pricing.