devops Aug 19, 2026 13 min
Hire DevOps engineers in 2026: the $0.60 EKS cluster hour and the March 2027 runtime block
Amazon EKS charges $0.60 per cluster hour once a Kubernetes version leaves standard support, six times the $0.10 base rate. That number, not a job title, is what a DevOps hire is really being asked to prevent.
Manu Shukla 
