GPU capacity planning changed on June 1, 2025. AWS announced up to a 45 percent price reduction for EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances covering the P4 and P5 families, effective on On-Demand purchases and extended to Savings Plans days later. The P5 H100 on-demand rate dropped 44 percent, the deepest on-demand …
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Cloud GPU Capacity Up 20% at AWS: Engineers Adapt Now
On July 1, 2026, AWS raised EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML prices by roughly 20% per accelerator-hour, its second hike in six months after a ~15% increase in January (Converge Digest). A reserved P6-B300 (Blackwell Ultra) now costs $14.04/hr. Cloud GPU capacity — the scarce fabric every foundation-model training and …