# Cloud price history · 2026-08-24-v1

AWS and Alibaba Cloud long-run public-price anchors for compute, block storage,
object storage, and internet egress, with workload baskets and physical-input
context.

- Observation spans: 2006-2026 depending on series
- Current endpoint: 2026-08-22 snapshot
- Analysis date: 2026-08-24
- Nominal, inflation-adjusted, and quality-adjusted views are separate
- Status: released historical analysis; no future price path is implied

The charts are derived from the CSV tables. Public list prices are not enterprise
net prices, and same-advertised-capacity instances are not performance-equivalent.