Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a price reduction of up to 45% for its NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Amazon EC2 instances, including P4 and P5 instance types. This reduction applies to both On-Demand and Savings Plan pricing across various regions, aimed at making advanced GPU computing more accessible to customers. Additionally, AWS is introducing new EC2 P6-B200 instances for large-scale AI workloads.
AWS has faced backlash over its updated pricing for the Kiro AI coding tool, which users have criticized as excessively high compared to initial projections. A pricing bug has been identified, leading to unexpected consumption of request limits, prompting AWS to suspend charges for August and reassess user limits. Users have reported that competing tools offer more cost-effective solutions for similar services.