How platform teams are eliminating a $43,800 “hidden tax” on Kubernetes infrastructure

Virtual clusters let platform teams provide isolated Kubernetes environments without provisioning separate control planes.

A managed Amazon EKS control plane costs $0.10 per hour, about $876 per year, which scales to roughly $43,800 for 50 clusters.

vCluster runs virtual clusters as pods in namespaces, preserving API isolation while consolidating control plane overhead.

Kamaji runs control planes as pods in a management cluster for large fleet tenancy use cases.