Alibaba Cloud is raising prices by 5–34% across dozens of services, citing surging AI demand and rising hardware procurement costs. GPU-backed instances see the steepest hikes (25–34%), with even their homebrew AI ASIC (Pingtouge Zhenwu 810E) affected. This follows AWS quietly hiking ML resource prices 15% in January, signaling a broader hyperscaler trend of passing AI infrastructure costs to customers.
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Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand
Alibaba Cloud raises prices across its service portfolio by up to 34%, with GPU-backed instances hit hardest at 25-34%, as hyperscalers pass surging AI infrastructure costs to customers.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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