OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
- ID
- 12989
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 11 Aug 2026, 1:52 PM
- Fetched
- 11 Aug 2026, 4:08 PM
- Provider
- The Register
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/08/11/ovh-cloud-warns-of-87-price-hikes-to-help-it-cover-rampocalypse-costs/5285867
- Source URL
- https://www.theregister.com/headlines.atom
Summary
- Score
- 6.5
- Created
- 11 Aug 2026, 4:10 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
OVH Cloud CEO Octave Klaba warned of server rental price hikes up to 87% (gaming servers) and 40-59% (other recent servers) starting September 2026, driven by RAM costs rising 6x (heading to 12x next year), NVMe drives up 7x, HDDs up 3.5x, and CPUs/motherboards up 15-20%. OVH is also decoupling storage (€0.000146/GB/h) and IP addresses (€0.0027/h) from Gen3 instances starting October 1st, and dropping 1-month, 6-month, and 24-month saving plans.
Why it matters
If you run on OVH or any budget European cloud, lock in 12 or 36-month saving plans now before September, and recheck your October bill for newly separated storage and IP line items. More broadly, the AI-driven hardware cost inflation Klaba describes is not OVH-specific—expect similar upward pressure across all non-hyperscale providers, which matters for SaaS unit economics and infrastructure cost projections.
Discussion angle
How much of your cloud spend is RAM-bound, and would moving workloads to hyperscale reserved capacity or colocated hardware now hedge against the RAMpocalypse spreading to your provider?