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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 a
by tbrownaw 10mo ago
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.
- croes 10mo agoThe didn’t say what update mean, higher or lower and who watches the price page if you are already paying customer?
- cobolcomesback 10mo agoAWS sends out targeted notifications via email and via alerts in the console if you are a current customer of a service that is changing somehow. It’s pretty normal that they don’t send out a press release and blog post every time something changes - if they did it would be a mass overload of such releases.
- JohnMakin 10mo agoAnd if you are spending enough, a rep will probably personally reach out to you. I've never personally been blindsided by price changes, they seem actually one of the better vendors about this.
- Spivak 10mo agoYou, hopefully. I mean if you're an individual then I can see it but at work we do a monthly billing review to catch things like this. I hope you're not treating AWS entirely like a black box money pit and actually look to see where it goes.
- Ygg2 10mo ago> These do not seem entirely consistent? > But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
- acdha 10mo agoDouglas Adams was a treasure, but I don’t think he was describing putting pricing information on the pricing page.
- lucketone 10mo agoAlso true that they definitely calculated that only x% of customers will read the pricing page or the email. (X probably being below 10)
- acdha 10mo agoI would be very surprised if that’s true for anyone using enough GPU capacity to be reserving it in bulk. There’s so much time and attention to cost optimization and that’s going to be one of the top drivers for anyone doing AI.