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Never. I don't think AWS have _ever_ icnreased prices.

They have, but usually it is via introducing additional fees to services/transactions, eg:

https://www.astuto.ai/blogs/understanding-the-aws-public-ipv... https://www.wiv.ai/navigating-the-rising-tide-of-aws-pricing...

The IPv4 charge is a good one!

I thought this was to allow them to be more relaxed about the limit (5 per region) which is how they used to control fully free services that cost them.

But an increase for sure - they did note the supply of free ARIN allocations was gone

It's a matter of perspective, I don't do IPv6, when AWS decided to start charging for IPv4, I moved to Oracle Cloud.

AWS also charges multiples the price to begin with. I mean, the "scam" of AWS has always been the absolutely outrageous network egress pricing.

AWS raised the prices (/slashed the free tier) for Cognito literally last week[0], in a way that's quite similar to Hetzner.

[0]: https://saasprices.net/blog/aws-price-rise

IPv4 charge caused me to have to redesign some things and cull servers for some projects.

I decided to move to Oracle Cloud when they made that move.

Right - I’ve been on them since EC2 flat network / simple DB days and was trying to remember if I ever got an email like this.

I know google has jacked rates (maps etc) and killed services (I used their first paas before it was basically abandoned)

I have argued online with folks about their pricing - my point usually being as soon as you try to do Netflix or YouTube on the “Free” or unlimited or ultra low cost providers - you find out it’s a lie.

My impression was hetzner had started null routing customers for “abuse” who used a lot. No idea if that’s true, but used to be the way the “unlimited” VPS providers did it.

I believe they have for very specific services, but never for things like EC2 or RDS.

There are also some EC2 instance classes where upgrading instance types in the same "size" are more expensive, but that is very rare, but I dont believe AWS has ever pulled the rug out from under you.

> There are also some EC2 instance classes where upgrading instance types in the same "size" are more expensive

An increase in price has been the rule rather than the exception for recent upgrades for vanilla instance types, e.g., c, r, m types in the newest generations (6 -> 7 for x86, 6 -> 7, or -> 8 for Arm types).

The increases have been modest though, perhaps around 10%. You get additional CPU and sometimes minor increases in other resources on the newer types.

Increasing prices is not "pulling the rug out from under you". Hertzer decided to raise their prices. Their customers can either continue using their service, reduce their use of the service, or go somewhere else.

Also, we live in a time of high inflation. We should expect price increases because they value of the dollar, euro, etc. is going down.

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