tl;dr: sorry folks, raising prices since electricity prices skyrocketed, engineers want more money, and inflation is real.
So I think it's more like: sorry guys, we ran an analysis and found that when we raise the price, most people won't migrate away and we make more money :]
If the price would be determined by costs, why would their cloud be multiple times more expensive than Hetzner.
The pandemic has global chip manufacturing, but left SSD and HDD untouched?
How?
If you’re not, however, things haven’t been so bad - Apple, AMD, Intel, etc. haven’t had the equivalent of those Teslas shipping with missing parts. There has been the pox of cryptocurrency’s ever higher demands for waste affecting GPU buyers but that looks like it’s far more an issue of demand than supply.
I'm not seeing that. In the last 2-3 years prices haven't changed much, when comparing drives of the same performance and warranty. And the best price per TB are still 1TB SSDs, large SSDs are still very expensive.
"Existing customers will see prices rise by 10% per year, because we know leaving is hard, and new customers will get a massive discount and loads of free credits. If you migrate in from Amazon we'll pay your final AWS bill for all the data transfer.".