The first cross-vendor pricing reference for post-EOL extended support. Microsoft ESU: $61/device doubling yearly ($30 one-time for consumers). AWS: EKS $0.60/cluster-hour (6x), RDS $0.100/vCPU-hour doubling in year three. Ubuntu Pro: $25 desktop / $500 server per year. And the honest quote-based rows — Red Hat ELS, Oracle, SUSE LTSS, CentOS ELS — where no public price exists. Every figure traced to a vendor price page or our verified coverage.
The cross-vendor price table
| Product | What it buys | Pricing model | Published price (verified 2026-08-12) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 10 — consumer ESU | Critical + important security updates to Oct 12, 2027 | Per device, one-time enrollment | Free (settings sync) · 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points · or $30 one-time | Microsoft consumer ESU page |
| Windows 10 — commercial ESU | Yearly security updates, max 3 years (to Oct 2028) | Per device, per year — doubles annually, cumulative | $61 yr 1 → $122 yr 2 → $244 yr 3 (≈$427 total) · $0 on Azure VMs / Windows 365 / AVD | Microsoft ESU documentation |
| Windows Server 2012/R2 ESU | Final ESU year ends Oct 13, 2026 — then nothing, at any price | Per year, via volume licensing or Azure Arc | 100% of the full license price, each year — no year discount · $0 on Azure | Per our analysis of Microsoft's ESU FAQ |
| Amazon EKS | 12 more months of Kubernetes version support | Metered per cluster-hour — enrollment automatic, no opt-in | $0.60/cluster/hr vs $0.10 standard (6x) — ≈$438/mo vs ≈$73/mo per cluster | AWS EKS pricing page |
| Amazon RDS (MySQL / PostgreSQL) | Up to 3 years past end of standard support | Metered per vCPU-hour — enrollment automatic unless disabled | $0.100/vCPU-hr yrs 1–2, $0.200 yr 3 (AWS US East example rate) — Multi-AZ pays per instance | AWS RDS pricing page |
| Ubuntu — ESM (Ubuntu Pro) | +5 years of patching past LTS standard support (20.04 to Apr 2030, 22.04 to Apr 2032) | Per-machine subscription | Free up to 5 personal machines · $25/desktop/yr · $500/server/yr (unlimited VMs) — support plans extra | Canonical's Ubuntu Pro pricing page |
| RHEL — ELS add-on | RHEL 7 to May 31, 2029 · RHEL 8 to 2033 · RHEL 9 to 2036 (RHEL 6 ELS already ended Jun 30, 2024) | Subscription add-on | Quote-based — not publicly priced; sold through your Red Hat agreement | Our tracked lifecycle data |
| OpenShift — EUS | 4.18: EUS Term 1 to Feb 25, 2027; Term 2 to Feb 25, 2028 | Entitlement tier: included on Premium, paid add-on on Standard; Term 2 paid for everyone | Not publicly priced — your subscription tier decides whether you pay at all | Per our OpenShift 4.18 analysis |
| Oracle Java SE 17 | Extended Support, Oct 2026 – Sep 2029 | Fee waived | $0 above the existing Java SE subscription — the fee is waived through Sep 2029 | Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap |
| Oracle Database | Extended Support windows per release (19c Extended to 2032; 11g past every published phase) | Percentage uplift on the annual support contract, per Oracle's Lifetime Support Policy | Not publicly priced in dollars — the uplift applies to your contract value; post-window coverage (e.g. 11g) is negotiated | Per our Oracle Database analysis |
| Oracle Linux | OL7 Extended Support to Jun 2028 | Per-system support subscription | Quote-based — no fetchable public price list for the extended phase | Per our Oracle Linux analysis |
| Debian — ELTS (Freexian) | Debian 11 listed through Jun 30, 2031 — coverage scoped to subscribers' packages | Subscription, package-scoped | Quote-shaped — arranged with Freexian per estate; no flat public per-machine price | Per our Debian 11 analysis |
| SUSE — LTSS | Extra patch years past SLES general support | Add-on subscription | Quote-based — mechanism public, price not | Vendor publishes the mechanism only |
| CentOS 7 | Security patches past the Jun 30, 2024 EOL | Third-party ELS market only — there is no first-party option | Quote-based at most vendors — some publish list prices, most enterprise coverage is quoted | Per our CentOS 7 analysis · matching |
What's covered
- The five shapes of extended-support pricing
- The cross-vendor price table
- The three traps in extended-support pricing
- The cost questions people actually ask
- The honest arithmetic: when the bridge costs more than the crossing
- Price your actual estate, not the average
Full guide with every version, risk scores, and live updates: https://endoflife.ai/article-extended-support-costs
