The 2027 Cloud Budget Planning Guide: What to Assume About GPU, Storage, and Egress Prices
September is budget season, and 2026 broke most planning assumptions. The 2027 guide: what to assume for GPU, storage, memory, and egress prices, plus the contract timing that captures a shifting market.
Spot GPU Pricing in 2026: The Discounts Are Shrinking and Sometimes Inverting
Spot GPUs promised 60 to 90 percent savings. In 2026 the discounts are compressing, and H100 spot has occasionally priced above on-demand. What changed in the market and the new decision framework.
Same GPU, 6x the Price: The Hyperscaler Premium, Explained With Real Numbers
The same H100 silicon rents for around $2 per hour on the cheapest credible providers and over $12 on Azure. We break down where the premium comes from, when it is justified, and when it is pure margin.
Your GPUs Are 5% Utilized: The Most Expensive Waste in Cloud Right Now
Industry data across 23,000+ Kubernetes clusters puts average GPU utilization at roughly 5%. Teams are paying for twenty times the capacity they use, right as prices rise. The utilization playbook that fixes it.
GPU Rental Prices, Mid-2026: What H100, H200, and B200 Capacity Actually Costs Right Now
Using live data from our GPU Price Explorer across 30+ providers: what H100, H200, and B200 capacity actually costs in mid-2026, the spread between cheapest and priciest, and where rates head next.
Egress Fees Explained: The Complete 2026 Guide to Cloud’s Most Hated Cost
Every gigabyte leaving your cloud provider costs money, and at scale it becomes one of the largest lines on the bill. The definitive guide to egress pricing across providers and how to engineer around it.
The NVMe Shortage Nobody Budgeted For: Why Storage Prices Tripled and What to Do Before 2027
NVMe prices have roughly tripled and supply is not expected to normalize until late 2027. Storage just went from an afterthought line item to a budget decision. Here is how to respond.
