AWS EKS Upgrade - Avoid Forced Upgrades, & Save $450K!
EKS Upgrades are due soon—don’t wait until forced upgrades disrupt your mission-critical applications. Upgrade proactively to avoid downtime, 6X surcharges, missed CVEs, and unresolved bugs.
Missed Deadline = Forced EKS Upgrade!
$450K Annual Cost
If your EKS clusters are running on older Kubernetes versions, expect a 6X increased surcharge, leading to $450K per 100 clusters annually in extended support fees.
No Opt-Out, Automatic Charges
Fees are automatically applied, and skipping versions isn’t allowed, locking you into in-place, incremental upgrades, requiring a +1 version bump per upgrade cycle.
Application Disruption & Security Risks
Forced upgrades can happen at any time, leading to downtime, application failures, and missed security patches for CVEs—without remediation or prior notice.
Top Reasons to Add Chkk to Your Kubernetes Operational Toolkit Today
Speedup and Derisk Upgrades
Accelerate
3x to 5x
Cut weeks of work to days.
Enhance Operational Safety
Detect and Fix Risks Before They Cause Breakages
Offset
500+
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Save 1000s hrs of break-fix effort
Breakages
Ship Faster Free up Resources
Achieve Organizational Goals Save Time and Money
Liberate
3 to 5
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Enhance Productivity and Agility
FTEs
Delegate and Parallelize Work
Standardize Workflows, Simplify Reuse, Share Knowledge
Improve
+20%
Reduce context switching and time-to-find. Maintain history.
Productivity
Reclaim Redundant Effort
Unify Tooling Across Teams. Save Multiplicative Effort
Recover
1000s
of unnecessary upgrade planning & research across entire organization.
Hrs
Avoid Paying 500% Surcharge
AKS Long Term Support (LTS), EKS and GKE Extended Support
Save
$450K
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Stay ahead. Stay compliant
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Upgrading Kubernetes clusters and add-ons is complex, error-prone, and time-consuming. Teams often spend weeks researching dependencies, identifying incompatibilities, and coordinating approvals—all before even starting the upgrade process.
Chkk eliminates these inefficiencies by providing a Preverified Upgrade Plan that streamlines every stage of the upgrade:
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AWS EKS Upgrade - Avoid Forced Upgrades, & Save $450k!
Trusted by Enterprises
"Despite having an expert team with years of K8s experience, at tracking add-on versions, EOLs, release notes, and breaking changes across dozens of CNCF projects is very time-consuming. Chkk’s Availability Risk Ledger gives us this information on our fingertips, enabling us to prevent risks that have led to incidents, failures and disruptions for others. Not only does Chkk save us from downtime, but more importantly it saves us time.”
Platform Architect
KYC Identity Provider
"Chkk saved us months of work while upgrading our clusters. It used to take 3 people 4 weeks to do one upgrade. With Chkk, it takes 1 person 1 week. Also, Chkk brings standardization to our upgrade process so I am finally able to delegate upgrades to other team members."
Principal Architect
NYSE-Listed Large Media Enterprise
Regulatory requirements mandate that we take serious measures to avoid downtime. Chkk enables us to do that. Before Chkk, our upgrade process was risky, fragile and tedious. With Chkk, upgrades are a breeze as we can look into the future to identify what could break, before it actually breaks.
Director Cloud Engineering
Nasdaq-Listed Health Tech Enterprise
$450K Annual Cost
If your EKS clusters are running on older Kubernetes versions, expect a 6X increased surcharge, leading to $450K per 100 clusters annually in extended support fees.
No Opt-Out, Automatic Charges
You cannot opt out of these charges. Fees are automatically applied, and skipping versions isn’t allowed. This locks you into in-place, incremental upgrades, requiring a +1 version bump per upgrade cycle.
Application Disruptions & Security Risks
You cannot opt out of these charges. Fees are automatically applied, and skipping versions isn’t allowed. This locks you into in-place, incremental upgrades, requiring a +1 version bump per upgrade cycle.
Speedup and Derisk Upgrades
Accelerate
3x to 5x
Cut weeks of work to days.
Regulatory requirements mandate that we take serious measures to avoid downtime. Chkk enables us to do that. Before Chkk, our upgrade process was risky, fragile and tedious. With Chkk, upgrades are a breeze as we can look into the future to identify what could break, before it actually breaks.
Director Cloud Engineering
Nasdaq-Listed Health Tech Enterprise
Speedup and Derisk Upgrades
Cut weeks of work to days. Improve Safety. Avoid pain.
Accelerate
3x to 5x
With Safety, Confidence, and Peace of Mind
Enhance Operational Safety
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Save 1000s hrs of break-fix effort
Offset
500+
Detect and Fix Risks Before They Cause Breakages
Breakages
AWS EKS simplifies Kubernetes management, but its forced upgrade cycle does not. Managing Kubernetes clusters through AWS EKS offers scalability and automation, yet the rigid upgrade cycles and extended support costs impose serious financial and operational burdens. This outdated framework results in:
Ship Faster Free up Resources
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Enhance Productivity and Agility
Achieve Organizational Goals Save Time and Money
Liberate
3 to 5
FTEs
Delegate and Parallelize Work
Reduce context switching and time-to-find. Maintain history.
Standardize Workflows, Simplify Reuse, Share Knowledge
Improve
+20%
Productivity
Avoid Paying 500% Surcharge
Annually for every 100 Clusters. Stay ahead. Stay compliant
Save
$450K
AKS Long Term Support (LTS), EKS and GKE Extended Support
Reclaim Redundant Effort
of unnecessary upgrade planning & research across entire organization.
Recover
1000s
Unify Tooling Across Teams. Save Multiplicative Effort
Hrs