Open-source alternative  ·  Container Platform

Replace Amazon EKS with K3s / Rancher.

Self-hosted Kubernetes with K3s (CNCF certified, single binary) or Rancher for enterprise multi-cluster management. No per-cluster hourly fees. Run on your own hardware.

You'd keep~R16 200 to ~R66 600/year

Current licence  ·  Container Platform

Amazon EKS

~R16 200 – ~R66 600/yr

10-user estimate

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K3s / Rancher

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R66 600/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Amazon EKS's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R16 200/yr

R1 350/month

Per cluster (estimated)

With K3s / Rancher

Keep R16 200/yr

With Fargate

R66 600/yr

R5 550/month

Per cluster (estimated)

With K3s / Rancher

Keep R66 600/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Amazon EKS grows around 10% per year on average. K3s / Rancher hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR30kR59kR89kR119kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R108kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.44M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Amazon EKSK3s / Rancher, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.