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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 haritha-j »

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…

From a resource allocation perspective, this doesn't feel particularly undesirable, at least in terms of certain assets like vehicles. The current system of ownership is quite wasteful. I own a high end GPU that I use maybe 4 hours a week for gaming.

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

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Post by zwnow »

mikasisiki wrote: post #27
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.

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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 croes »

tbrownaw wrote: post #25

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? . > This comes about seven months after AWS trumpeted "up to 45% price reductions" for GPU instances - though that anno…

The didn’t say what update mean, higher or lower and who watches the price page if you are already paying customer?

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

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Post by candiddevmike »

aurareturn wrote: post #24
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.

The only real visibility we have into the demand side (kinda) are spot prices, and those seem to be flat or decreasing for GPU instances. Surely if there was this crazy, exponential demand, spot prices would reflect that.

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

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Post by croes »

mikasisiki wrote: post #27
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.

Because buying a house is even more unaffordable.

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

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Post by wslh »

haritha-j wrote: post #31
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…

From a resource allocation perspective, this doesn't feel particularly undesirable, at least in terms of certain assets like vehicles. The current system of ownership is quite wasteful. I own a high end GPU that I use maybe 4 hours a week for gaming.

On the other hand companies go to cloud services as if they were scaling and complex as a FAANG.

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

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Post by XorNot »

haritha-j wrote: post #31
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…

From a resource allocation perspective, this doesn't feel particularly undesirable, at least in terms of certain assets like vehicles. The current system of ownership is quite wasteful. I own a high end GPU that I use maybe 4 hours a week for gaming.

If capitalism prices me out of owning property, then I've not much use for it.

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

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Post by ZoneZealot »

zozbot234 wrote: post #18
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.

Keeping in mind the consumer space will see minimal trickle down from used datacenter electronics in ~3-5 years from this boom.

The GPUs are generally rack-scale integrated units rather than PCIe. The bulk of the GPU RAM is HBM, so not very scavenge-able for consumer GPU mods. Power consumption of the blackwell GPUs in most solutions like the DGX B200 isn't really viable for home use even if you had the space and hookups for a fraction of the original 10ru system. The hard drives and SSDs will be likely be shredded on site and never re-sold as used. RAM will be registered ECC, only suitable for server-class motherboards.

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

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Post by bravetraveler »

haritha-j wrote: post #31
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…

From a resource allocation perspective, this doesn't feel particularly undesirable, at least in terms of certain assets like vehicles. The current system of ownership is quite wasteful. I own a high end GPU that I use maybe 4 hours a week for gaming.

Join us on the floor of the gymnasium, Carol
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