Alibaba Cloud has increased prices for compute, storage, and SaaS services by up to 34 percent, according to Unrot's June 15 reporting. The largest increases fall on high-end GPU instances. Existing customers have their current pricing honored until renewal cycles beginning after April 18, 2026. The increase is structural: datacenter hardware costs have risen significantly since 2021, and US and Taiwanese export controls limit Alibaba Cloud's access to the latest NVIDIA GPU generations, forcing greater reliance on Huawei Ascend chips and older inventory. Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS have also raised GPU instance pricing in 2026, though none as steeply as Alibaba's announced increase. For enterprise teams, the era of falling cloud AI costs that ran from 2022 through 2024 is definitively over.