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New Agentless Cost Allocation for Amazon EKS
Visibility into all your Kubernetes costs without the overhead of deploying an agent
Based on our customers’ data, we are seeing an increasing number of workloads migrating to EKS. Yet, Kubernetes costs are a black box for most organizations.
At nOps, we’re excited to introduce agentless cost allocation for Amazon EKS — a frictionless way to gain visibility into Kubernetes costs for all your clusters across all accounts without the operational overhead of deploying an agent.
How It Works
1. Enable split cost allocation data
Under AWS Billing and Cost Management, enable split cost allocation and select ‘Resource Requests’. There is no additional cost (other than standard S3 costs).
2. Automate your cost intelligence
nOps normalizes and enriches CUR data, automatically mapping EKS workloads to business context — like teams, services, or customers — and provides dashboards and reports for budgeting, forecasting, and efficiency tracking.
3. Use Kubernetes insight to find waste
In addition to allocating costs by team, service, or feature, you can set budgets and forecasts for individual EKS components. You can also easily identify over-provisioned nodes and node pools to reduce waste.
Quickly identify the node pools with the highest amount of waste to target savings opportunities.
4. Find container waste
You can use this agentless feature to identify node-level waste.
However, if you’re looking to understand how much your containers are overprovisioned with more granular insights, you can install our agent.
5. Manage your data scale and quality with nOps
Enabling split cost allocation is a small change with a big data impact. The Amazon Cost and Usage report is already massive — especially when hourly and line_item_resource_id are included. For example, March 2025 for nOps included 85,508,558 rows. When we added the Split Cost Allocation to the CUR it ballooned to 101,712,627 rows. This is 19% growth simply by turning on a passive CUR feature.
And if you’re running Kubernetes at scale, the row count could even be much larger.
This is where nOps comes in: we process all of your data for you. Leave the heavy lifting to us so you can focus on gaining better insight into your AWS spend.
How to Get Started
If you're already on nOps...
Have questions about agentless EKS cost allocation? Need help getting started? Our dedicated support team is here for you. Simply reach out to your Customer Success Manager or visit our Help Center. If you’re not sure who your CSM is, send our Support Team a message.
If you’re new to nOps…
nOps was recently ranked #1 with five stars in G2’s cloud cost management category, and we optimize $2+ billion in cloud spend for our customers.
Join our customers using nOps to understand your cloud costs and leverage automation with complete confidence by booking a demo with one of our AWS experts.
