Ask HN: Do you expect cloud price increase in Europe due to enery crisis With the energy crisis in Europe, do you expect some important rises in Europe regions with Cloud Providers in 2023. In my case, I have lots of resources in Belgium region in GCP, Will I see my cloud bill jump to the roof? I'll appreciate any links and opinions on the topic. |
From email to customers
"Energy prices from suppliers have risen drastically since the end of last year. This phenomenon is affecting people and industries across the globe. And since prices are not likely to drop or stabilize in the near future, we are forced to increase the prices of many of our products by approximately 10 %. In addition, we also unfortunately need to implement a serious increase to the electricity/air conditioning rate for our colocation products."
new price 34.80 Euro old price 26.20 Euro Starting on 2022-03-08 (notified 2022-01-21)
Google and Azure can't (yet) because AWS hasn't so far. But with the continuous harassment of cloud providers by the useless eaters from Brussels, I bet that's only a matter of time.