Developer Tool Pricing Changes: December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026

5 events in week 1, 2026: 4 changes tracked and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records.

Medium Impact (4)

restructured AWS effective 2026-01-03 Cloud IaaS

EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML GPU prices increased ~15% across regions. p5e.48xlarge went from $34.61 to $39.80/hr (US East) and $43.26 to $49.75/hr (US West N. California) Source ↗

restricted Atlassian Forge effective 2026-01-01 Developer Tools

Forge platform moved from free to consumption-based billing for compute and storage Source ↗

restructured Fly.io effective 2026-01-01 Cloud Hosting

From January 2026 Fly.io bills volume snapshot storage at $0.08/GB a month after the first 10 GB free each month; automatic snapshots were free before. Source ↗

increased DigitalOcean effective 2026-01-01 Cloud IaaS

Droplets moved from hourly to per-second billing (with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher) Source ↗

Deadlines stated for December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026 (1)

1 deadline stated in earlier change records. These are quoted dates, not additional change records.

stated deadline Amazon Kiro (AWS Startups) 2025-12-31 Startup Perks

Kiro launched startup credits: up to one year of Kiro Pro+ for startups between "we have an idea and some funding" and Series B VC-backed, in three tiers of up to 2, 50 and 100 users, for applications until 2025-12-31. Source ↗

Pricing Changes: December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026

Medium Impact (4)

Deadlines stated for December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026 (1)

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