Prevent increased cluster costs by disabling EKS extended support - Amazon EKS
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Prevent increased cluster costs by disabling EKS extended support

This topic describes how to set the upgrade policy of an EKS cluster to disable extended support. The upgrade policy of an EKS cluster determines what happens when a cluster reaches the end of the standard support period. If a cluster upgrade policy has extended support disabled, it will be automatically upgraded to the next Kubernetes version.

For more information about upgrade policies, see View current cluster upgrade policy.

Important

You cannot disable extended support once your cluster has entered it. You can only disable extended support for clusters on standard support.

AWS recommends upgrading your cluster to a version in the standard support period.

Disable EKS extended support (AWS Console)

  1. Navigate to your EKS cluster in the AWS Console. Select the Overview tab on the Cluster Info page.

  2. In the Kubernetes version setting section, select Manage.

  3. Select Standard support and then Save changes.

Disable EKS extended support (AWS CLI)

  1. Verify the AWS CLI is installed and you are logged in. Learn how to update and install the AWS CLI.

  2. Determine the name of your EKS cluster.

  3. Run the following command:

    aws eks update-cluster-config \
--name <cluster-name> \
--upgrade-policy supportType=STANDARD