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

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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 walthamstow »

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…

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

This is here already. A long time ago, maybe even before covid, I asked a table of iPhone-owning friends who pays Apple a monthly sub for storage, and every hand went up.

I know you mention home computers, but most of my friends don't have one. Their iPhone is their computer.

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

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Post by aurareturn »

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?
No if we're in a working free market. Companies will see the rising prices and start making more of those things, bringing prices back down.

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

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Post by aurareturn »

candiddevmike wrote: post #14

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

Demand for GPUs is increasing overall. So it's very likely that AWS GPU demand is rising.

AWS isn't the only company offering GPUs for rent so raising prices doesn't make sense unless demand is rising faster than supply.

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

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Post by tbrownaw »

Headline: hopes you weren't paying attention

Body: The change had been telegraphed: AWS's pricing page noted (and bizarrely, still does) that "current prices are scheduled to be updated in January, 2026," though the company neglected to mention which direction.

These do not seem entirely consistent?

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> This comes about seven months after AWS trumpeted "up to 45% price reductions" for GPU instances - though that announcement covered On-Demand and Savings Plans rather than Capacity Blocks. Funny how that works.

Assuming I found the right pricing page(s), this new increased price is still lower than those other prices that were lowered.

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

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Post by saikia81 »

skywhopper wrote: post #10
darkwater wrote: post #5

But weren't the AWS shills saying that AWS only reduces pricing? I was trusting them blindly! /s

Historically this has been mostly true with the exception of the recent cost per public IPv4 address.

They made oauth client (cognito oauth credential grant) a subscription, raising our bill X10. Just for having the client registered in the dashboard, even without using that oauth client application. we saw thousands of cost, for zero usage.

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

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Post by mikasisiki »

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…

It’s possible. Either way, many people literally sleep in a monthly subscription model — rent.

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

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

walthamstow wrote: post #21
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…

> You don't need storage space, use our cloud subscription This is here already. A long time ago, maybe even before covid, I asked a table of iPhone-owning friends who pays Apple a monthly sub for storage, and every hand went up. I know you mention home computers, but most of my friends don't have one. Their iPhone is their computer.

Not everyone is in it for the storage though, I use it mostly as a reliable syncing solution for my photos, as well as for iCloud private relay.

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

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Post by oliwary »

aurareturn wrote: post #23
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? No if we're in a working free market. Companies will see the rising prices and start making more of those things, bringing prices back down.

Ideally. Companies may also be hesitant to invest in expanding production capacity if they assume this is a bubble though.

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

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Post by bocytron »

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…

This has been theorized as Technofeudalism: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism
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