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# Free and Standard pricing tiers for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster management
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now offering two pricing tiers for cluster management: the **Free tier** and the **Standard tier**.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> **Standard tier** is currently not available. To enable the Uptime SLA feature in your cluster, you'll use the existing **Paid tier** and the `--uptime-sla` parameter.
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||Free tier|Standard tier|
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|------------------|---------|--------|
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|**When to use**|• You want to experiment with AKS at no extra cost <br> • You're new to AKS and Kubernetes|• You're running production or mission-critical workloads and need high availability and reliability <br> • You need a financially backed SLA|
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az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --no-uptime-sla
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# Create a new AKS cluster in the Standard tier
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# Create a new AKS cluster in the Paid tier
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az aks create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --uptime-sla
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```
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Once the deployment completes, it returns JSON-formatted information about your cluster:
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```output
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# Sample output for `--no-uptime-sla`
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# Sample output for --no-uptime-sla
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},
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"sku": {
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"name": "Basic",
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"tier": "Free"
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},
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# Sample output for `uptime-sla`
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# Sample output for uptime-sla
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},
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"sku": {
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"name": "Basic",
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"name": "Base",
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"tier": "Paid"
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},
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```
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az aks update --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster --uptime-sla
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```
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This process takes several minutes to complete. When finished, the following example JSON snippet shows the paid tier for the SKU, indicating your cluster is enabled with Uptime SLA.
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This process takes several minutes to complete. When finished, the following example JSON snippet shows the Paid tier for the SKU, indicating your cluster is enabled with Uptime SLA.
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