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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 marcosdumay »

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…

Subscriptions usually add up to the cost of buying in less than an year.

Companies hope on people being none-the-wiser, but live mostly of people that subscribe for short durations or need the internet component of the services. So, no, prices going up will make subscriptions less popular, not more.

This is different from expensive goods pools (rental cars, houses, airplanes, etc) because there's actual competition on those.

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Post by rekabis »

I have a pair of Dell T7500 units for “slow and simple” self-hosting, and just snagged a trio of 1Tb/64Gb 2018 Mac Minis to join my own surplussed Mac Mini of the same vintage as single-purpose machines.

I have a gigabit symmetrical SOHO fibre connection. It’s time I brought everything back under one roof except for DNS.

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

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Post by esafak »

immibis wrote: post #44
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 just hoarding like at the start of COVID. How much does toilet paper cost right now, and do stores have it?

Are we going to go back to baking sourdough and cutting our own hair too?

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Post by snapcaster »

mort96 wrote: post #157
hairofadog wrote: post #70

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As a user of Claude I have been worried about this.

As someone who can't stand these tools, I'm ecstatic. Y'all have been hooked by the early venture-backed "scale up at all cost" period. You're gonna get squeezed so hard once investors start demanding returns on their investments -- and this whole craze is, hopefully, coming to an end.

You're likely going to stay seething for a while (even if bubble pops). the product market fit of these tools is so strong that companies paying tens of thousands per employee for them isn't really that big of a deal

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Post by therobots927 »

kakacik wrote: post #178
dewey wrote: post #164

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Maybe don't hold your breath on that. Even if the price for AI tools would double, or tripple...that's still a very small part of the actual cost of an employee.

... and almost no company of any size above startup counts cost like that. But I agree no point holding breath, whether somebody jumps on wagon or not won't change if price per query doubles, either its this massive productivity increase where costs of llms are a rounding error in overall costs or it isn't.

I’m betting on “isn’t”

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Post by kalap_ur »

SirMaster wrote: post #232
TrackerFF wrote: post #89

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Difference is that if subscription goes up from $10 to $15, that doesn't seem to bad. But if you want to purchase a new computer, and the price goes from $1000 to $1500, then that's a pretty big deal. (Though in reality, the price of said computer would probably go up even more, minimum double. RAM prices are already up 6-8 fold from summer)

Building a PC price is not double lol and RAM is nowhere near up 6-8x https://www.bestbuy.com/product/crucial-pro-overclocking-32g... That 32GB for $274 was not $34-$45 in the summer. RAM is up like 3x, but RAM is one of the cheaper parts of the PC. RAM that was $100 in summer is like $300 now when I look. So that's an extra $200 maybe $300, on say a $1500 build. GPUs are not up, they are still at MSRP: https://www.b…

I paid $150 for a 64GB DDR5 in Jan 2025. That is today $830 representing 5.5x.

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Post by esafak »

drob518 wrote: post #334
zelphirkalt wrote: post #305

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GPU and RAM supply doesn't change over the course of one weekend usually though. So there would have been no reason not to wait until Monday or do it before Saturday.

So, what, exactly, is the correct day of the week to raise prices?

The obvious solution is to do it continuously, by the second!

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Post by SirMaster »

kalap_ur wrote: post #346
SirMaster wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building a PC price is not double lol and RAM is nowhere near up 6-8x https://www.bestbuy.com/product/crucial-pro-overclocking-32g... That 32GB for $274 was not $34-$45 in the summer. RAM is up like 3x, but RAM is one of the cheaper parts of the PC. RAM that was $100 in summer is like $300 now when I look. So that's an extra $200 maybe $300, on say a $1500 build. GPUs are not up, they are still at MSRP: https://www.b…

I paid $150 for a 64GB DDR5 in Jan 2025. That is today $830 representing 5.5x.

What are the specs of the kit?

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Post by speff »

Y_Y wrote: post #188
jrjeksjd8d wrote: post #160

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Subscriptions have a "boiling frog" phenomenon where a marginal price increase isn't noticable to most people. Our payment rails are so effective many people don't even read their credit card statements, they just have vampires draining their accounts monthly. Starting with a low subscription price also has the effect of atrophying people's ability to self-serve. The alternative to a subscription is usually capital-i…

My bank has an option to send me a notification every time I'm charged for something. I've noticed several bills that were higher than they should have been "due to a technical error". I'm certain some companies rely on people not checking and randomly add "errors". Notably there's no way (known to me) that you can have direct debits sent as requests that aren't automatically paid. I think that would put consumers on…

Wasn’t aware about charge notifications. Looks like my bank supports that - thanks for the info!
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