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AWS raises EC2 GPU reservation prices by 20% amid AI chip demand surge

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Darius Popa

1d ago· 4 min readenNews
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Summary

AWS is raising prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML (reserved Nvidia GPU instances) by roughly 20% starting July, marking the second increase in six months after a 15% hike in January. The price increases reflect surging demand for AI chips and memory constraints, making reserved GPU capacity increasingly expensive for companies running machine learning workloads.

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Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city.
You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing.
On AWS, it just climbed again.
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Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, star

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