AWS Boosts Prices On High-End GPU Capacity Block
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
Amazon Web Services has implemented a roughly 15% price increase on some of its most powerful GPU-based EC2 Capacity Block instances, a move that will ripple through enterprise machine learning budgets and may even cause concerns about the future direction of cloud pricing.
The changes affect the p5e.48xlarge and p5en.48xlarge instances, both of which are built around eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs and are typically used for large-scale, business-critical machine learning training. Across most regions, hourly pricing for the p5e.48xlarge has risen from about $34.61 to $39.80, while the p5en.48xlarge has increased from roughly $36.18 to $41.61. Customers in the US West region have seen sharper jumps, with p5e rates climbing from $43.26 to $49.75 per hour.