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

This article announces significant management fee reductions for GPU and accelerated instance types on Amazon EKS Auto Mode, effective July 1, 2026.

• G-series Auto Mode management fees reduced by 35%
• P-series and AWS Trainium fees reduced by 60%
• Reductions apply automatically to all existing EKS Auto Mode clusters
• Includes automatic parallel image pulling and accelerator-aware node repair
• Available in all AWS Regions where EKS Auto Mode is supported
• Identical reductions also implemented for Amazon ECS Managed Instances

These pricing updates make GPU workloads on EKS Auto Mode significantly more cost-effective for machine learning, inference, and batch processing workloads.