Amazon raises prices on key AI computing reservations
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increased pricing for its Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a product used to reserve GPU-based compute capacity for machine learning workloads. The price hike affects high-end accelerators like Nvidia Blackwell and H100 systems starting July 1, 2026, with some rates rising by about 20%. This reflects growing demand in the AI sector and continued pricing power among cloud providers.
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