Amazon Web Services to Raise Prices for Some EC2 AI Capacity Blocks
By Anvee Bhutani
Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services said it would prices for certain Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for machine learning beginning July 1 as part of a periodic pricing update based on supply and demand.
The company said hourly reservation rates would increase for several instance types powered by graphics-processing units, or GPUs, including P6-B300, P6-B200, P5, P5e, P5en and P4de Capacity Blocks. Other prices would remain unchanged. The updated rates apply across most AWS regions, with some regional differences.
EC2 Capacity Blocks let customers reserve GPU-powered-computing capacity in advance for artificial-intelligence-model training and other machine-learning workloads, ensuring access to high-demand chips without long-term commitments. The service supports Nvidia Blackwell, H200, H100 and A100 GPUs, as well as AWS's Trainium chips, and allows reservations for up to six months.
AWS's Capacity Blocks require customers to pay an upfront reservation fee, with operating-system charges billed separately while instances are running.
Demand for AI-computing capacity has surged as companies race to build and deploy generative AI models. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that GPU-capacity shortages have pushed up rental prices for advanced Nvidia chips and forced some AI companies to ration computing resources amid strong demand.
Write to Anvee Bhutani at anvee.bhutani@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 26, 2026 11:45 ET (15:45 GMT)
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