AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention • Hacker News Board

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by KronisLV » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

merpkz wrote: post #6

it's last call to get a GPU while there is stock left, no hopes those will become any more affordable in future considering the ongoing DRAM crisis. I am going to get 5070 Ti to replace my 1080 Ti which did a great service over all these years, paid it's worth back two times over during monero mining days and still can play a lot of games on high settings - recently finished RDR2. I sometimes wonder if Nvidia will be…

I feel like the whole memory situation might also utterly screw up the pricing and value proposition of the upcoming Intel Arc B770.

I got a B580 cause everything else was out of my price range at the time (9060 XT 16 GB only seems to have 3 video outputs and I have no experience with daisy chaining to drive my 4 monitors and the 5060 Ti 16 GB pricing here is just sad).

I fear that companies will rise the prices during this shortage… and just never properly lower them again.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by xvxvx » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:35 PM UTC

- GPU prices rising

- RAM prices rising

- hard drive prices rising

Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’

‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’

Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games but charging per hour. Imagine how that impact Call of Duty or GTA.

Physical media could easily be killed off. Does my iPhone need 1TB of storage or will they shrink that and force everything through iCloud?

How long before car ownership is replaced with autonomous vehicle car pools? Grocery stores closed to visitors, all shopping done online and delivered to your door by drone.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by YouAreWRONGtoo » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:39 PM UTC

KronisLV wrote: post #11

merpkz wrote: post #6

it's last call to get a GPU while there is stock left, no hopes those will become any more affordable in future considering the ongoing DRAM crisis. I am going to get 5070 Ti to replace my 1080 Ti which did a great service over all these years, paid it's worth back two times over during monero mining days and still can play a lot of games on high settings - recently finished RDR2. I sometimes wonder if Nvidia will be…

I feel like the whole memory situation might also utterly screw up the pricing and value proposition of the upcoming Intel Arc B770. I got a B580 cause everything else was out of my price range at the time (9060 XT 16 GB only seems to have 3 video outputs and I have no experience with daisy chaining to drive my 4 monitors and the 5060 Ti 16 GB pricing here is just sad). I fear that companies will rise the prices duri…

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Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by candiddevmike » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC

Did they raise prices because of increased or decreased demand? I can't help but wonder if things are overbuilt and being underutilized.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by zwnow » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

Yes. Personal computing is dying if hardware vendors continue to cater to imaginary data centers for our imaginary AGI.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by lancekey » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC

MasterScrat wrote: post #2

Is there a reliable service that plots hourly price per GPU per cloud through time?

I’ve been working on computeprices.com as a side project for the last year to do just that.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by gonzalohm » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

If you don't own your computer, wouldn't you be more exposed to price increases?

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by zozbot234 » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

> - GPU prices rising

> - RAM prices rising

> - hard drive prices rising

This is great news. It means the industry is expanding a lot and we'll be getting better consumer hardware at the end of the day. Innovation has always dropped down from the enterprise space to the consumer, as far back as the first electronic calculators and microcomputers.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by pydry » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

We're looking at a glut of all of these things once the bubble bursts and the mindless trend followers jump on a trend.

Re: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by phito » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

xvxvx wrote: post #12

- GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising - hard drive prices rising Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? ‘You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription’ ‘You don’t need processing power, stream your games through our subscription service.’ Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

And as we've seen, once the market has been captured, they will start enshittifying everything to squeeze as much profit as they can and we'll have no alternatives.