Alibaba Cloud is raising prices for many services by up to 34 percent, citing surging global AI demand and rising hardware supply chain costs. GPU-powered instances will see the steepest increases (25–34%), while standard compute and storage face around 5% hikes. Even services running on Alibaba's own silicon, including the PolarDB database and the Pingtouge Zhenwu 810E AI ASIC, are affected. Customers who purchased services before April 18, 2026 won't see changes until their next renewal cycle. The move follows similar price hikes by AWS in January 2026, though critics note Alibaba's compute hike looks opportunistic given the company previously claimed superior resource efficiency and has been rationing GPU access to high-spending customers.
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