AWS (AMZN) is raising the price for its AI workload rental service by 20%, The Information reports

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AWS’s price increase affects its EC2 Capacity Blocks, which is a service that lets businesses rent out space to run AI workloads in advance, on Nvidia GPUs.
Prices won’t be increased for Capacity Blocks using Amazon’s Trainium chips.
Amazon didn’t give a reason for the price increase, other than noting pricing is “updated periodically based on supply and demand.”

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