Amazon raised prices for several key AI cloud offerings, the latest sign that memory chip shortages are driving up the cost of some technology. Amazon Web Services recently announced price increases for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. This is a cloud service that lets companies reserve GPUs in advance. The changes mean hourly rates for renting several types of cloud servers will jump by roughly 20% starting in July. AWS had already raised prices for the same service by about 15% in January. "Amazon