Every Cloud price change CostMon tracks that actually moved a bill, cuts and increases both, with the source and what to do about it.https://costmon.comhttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-vpc-encryption-controls-new-chargehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-vpc-encryption-controls-new-chargeAfter a free preview that ran from November 2025, AWS began charging a fixed hourly rate for every non-empty VPC running Encryption Controls in monitor or enforce mode. Empty VPCs stay free. The announcement itself doesn't print a rate. AWS's VPC pricing page puts it at $0.15 per hour in US East (N. Virginia), rising to $0.31 in the priciest regions. ($0.15 / VPC-hour (us-east-1)) — Audit which VPCs need enforce mode versus monitor mode, and turn it off on non-empty VPCs where it isn't earning its per-hour charge. Check your own region's rate too; it's up to twice the US East price.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAWSNew chargehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-build-e2-regional-price-update-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-build-e2-regional-price-update-2025Per-build-minute pricing for e2 machine types moved from one flat rate to a region-by-region table: us-east1 (South Carolina) went up across e2-medium, e2-highcpu-8, and e2-highcpu-32, while us-central1 (Iowa) went down slightly on the same machine types. (e.g. $0.064→$0.0705/build-min (us-east1)) — Check your build pool's region against the new per-region rate table, and shift latency-insensitive builds to a cheaper region if yours got more expensive.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncreasehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-ultra-disk-price-cut-uk-south-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-ultra-disk-price-cut-uk-south-2025In UK South, provisioned IOPS on Ultra Disk dropped from $0.06205 to $0.02482 per month, and provisioned throughput from $0.40588 to $0.08103 per MBPS per month. Per-GiB capacity pricing didn't move. (−60% IOPS / −80% throughput) — Re-run the disk cost estimate for UK South workloads at the new per-unit rates before assuming last quarter's numbers still hold.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#gke-single-tier-multicluster-free-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#gke-single-tier-multicluster-free-2025As part of moving to a single paid GKE tier, Fleets, Teams, Config Management, and Policy Controller are now included with GKE Standard. All four were previously gated behind a pricier tier or add-on. (fleet mgmt now $0) — Check your current GKE edition. If you upgraded purely for fleet management or Policy Controller, you can likely drop back to Standard and keep the feature.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudFree tierhttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-ec2-gpu-instances-price-cut-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-ec2-gpu-instances-price-cut-2025On-Demand pricing dropped across the P5, P5en, P4d, and P4de instance families: P5 by up to 45%, P5en by up to 26%, P4d/P4de by up to 33%. (up to −45% (P5)) — Compare the new On-Demand rate against your existing Savings Plan commitment. It may no longer be worth the lock-in.Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTAWSCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-guardduty-malware-protection-s3-cuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-guardduty-malware-protection-s3-cutThe per-GB price for the data-scanned dimension of Malware Protection for S3 dropped from $0.60 to $0.09 in US East (N. Virginia), applied automatically to existing customers. (−85% ($0.60→$0.09/GB)) — Re-run the cost projection for buckets you skipped scanning because it was too expensive. Coverage that didn't pencil out before likely does now.Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTAWSCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-sql-extended-support-new-charge-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-sql-extended-support-new-charge-2025Instances still running a MySQL or PostgreSQL major version past its community end-of-life get auto-enrolled in a paid "extended support" add-on, billed per vCPU-hour (or per instance-hour on shared-core). Google waived the charge through April 2025, then started billing it. (new per-vCPU/hr fee) — Check instance versions against Cloud SQL's end-of-life schedule and upgrade off any EOL major version instead of paying the ongoing surcharge.Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudNew chargehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-inter-az-bandwidth-free-2024https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-inter-az-bandwidth-free-2024Microsoft eliminated the per-GB charge for data moving across Availability Zones within a region, for both private and public IP traffic. (→ $0/GB) — Revisit any old cost-optimization advice that steered you away from zone-redundant architecture to dodge bandwidth charges. That tradeoff is gone.Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-ipv4-free-tier-750-hourshttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-ipv4-free-tier-750-hoursNew AWS accounts get 750 hours a month of public IPv4 usage at no charge when they launch an EC2 instance with a public address. That's enough to cover one always-on instance. (750 IPv4-hrs/mo free) — Don't assume this offsets your bill. Check whether your account qualifies as "new" before crediting it against the IPv4 charge.Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTAWSFree tierhttps://costmon.com/price-changes#gce-external-ipv4-price-increase-2024https://costmon.com/price-changes#gce-external-ipv4-price-increase-2024The External IP Charge for a standard VM rose from $0.004 to $0.005 an hour, and for a Spot VM from $0.002 to $0.0025, for every in-use external IPv4 address, on the same schedule as AWS's own IPv4 pricing move. ($0.004→$0.005/hr) — Move workloads to internal-only addressing behind Cloud NAT or a load balancer, and keep external IPs reserved for the resources that genuinely need one.Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncreasehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-public-ipv4-chargehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#aws-public-ipv4-chargeEvery public IPv4 address across AWS started accruing an hourly charge, whether it's attached to a running instance or just sitting on an Elastic IP nobody released. (+$0.005 / IP-hour) — Run VPC IP Address Manager's Public IP Insights, move workloads behind a shared NAT gateway or load balancer, and release unattached Elastic IPs.Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTAWSNew chargehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#bigquery-editions-on-demand-increase-2023https://costmon.com/price-changes#bigquery-editions-on-demand-increase-2023Google retired flat-rate annual, flat-rate monthly, and flex-slot commitments in favor of three new editions billed per-second, and raised the on-demand analysis price 25% across all regions on the same date. (+25% on-demand) — Cut bytes scanned with partitioning and clustering before the 25% increase compounds, and evaluate a slot-based edition if your on-demand spend is now significant.Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncreasehttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-currency-price-alignment-2023https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-currency-price-alignment-2023Microsoft moved to a twice-yearly currency-alignment cadence and raised local-currency Azure pricing to track USD: GBP up 9%, DKK/EUR/NOK up 11%, SEK up 15%. (+9% to +15% (non-USD)) — Check your billing currency and agreement type, and rebuild your forecast around the new rate instead of the one you budgeted with.Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureIncrease