CloudCut Vendor Kabushiki-gaisha 〇's Own Cross-Tabulation of 30 Price Changes (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, First-Party Sources Only): AWS Cut 17 of 19 (89.5%), GCP Raised 8 of 11 (72.7%); the Two Largest Hikes (EC2 Capacity Blocks) Carry No Official AWS Notice, Media-Reported Only (Vendor Tally, Not Re-Verified by This Site)

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2026-07-18-003 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-07-18 Author: 白河 雅 (Japan Editor-in-Chief; auto AI structuring) Category: Japan cloud cost / cross-tabulation of AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud price changes (PR TIMES first-party material; the issuer is a cloud-cost-reduction service vendor) Article covered: PRTIMES#1568314 (primary anchor; press release by Kabushiki-gaisha 〇, CloudCut Division; published 2026-07-18 01:00 JST -- a conversion of the DB metadata 2026-07-17 UTC, noted; source_type=prtimes, country=JP, article_id=1568314, url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html) Selection method: Selected from the daily selector candidates; this card follows the "PR TIMES first-party + cross-tabulation" format -- the main source is a single-issuer press release (Kabushiki-gaisha 〇, written literally "株式会社〇" in the release) containing a concrete, citable tally (30 items, by provider, by category, with per-item source dates for representative items). Transparency statement: the issuer of this tabulation is the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut" itself, not a neutral third-party research body; because the release, right after presenting the tally, pivots to "solution = review contracts via an authorized partner" and "CloudCut's value proposition (up to 20% reduction)," this card characterizes it as "the vendor's claim carrying a commercial stance," not as "official data." The sole source of every figure is the main text; this site did not re-verify the AWS/GCP official pages (official_count_verified=0), and apart from date-format conversion it generates no new figures and computes no ratio or total absent from the original. This card assigns no Wikidata Q number (this shift did no registry verification; when in doubt, leave it off).

TL;DR (core fact in one sentence)

Kabushiki-gaisha 〇 (the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut"; HQ in Shibuya, Tokyo; parent domain lei-inc.jp) announced via PR TIMES: using first-party sources (AWS's official "What's New with AWS" and Google Cloud's official price-change notices/official blog), it independently cross-tabulated price changes from February 2025 to July 2026 and obtained 30 items with a reachable first-party source -- combined, 20 cuts (66.7%) / 10 hikes (33.3%). [F-001] By provider (all within the 30-item sample, Feb 2025-Jul 2026): AWS cut 17 of 19 (89.5%), hiked only 2 (10.5%); GCP raised 8 of 11 (72.7%), cut 3 (27.3%). [F-002] The compute (8) + database (8) categories concentrate 16 items (about 53%). [F-003] The single largest hike in the tally is AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML (about 15% around January 2026 / about 20% around June 2026), but these two are explicitly marked as carrying no official AWS notice; the price-page changes were reported by multiple overseas media. [F-004][J-001][J-002]

Misread-prevention pin (one line, overrides the whole card)

Every "AWS cut ~90% / GCP raised ~70%" contrast in this card is strictly limited to the vendor's own 30-item sample (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, first-party-reachable items only) and must not be extrapolated into a general conclusion that "AWS cuts 90% of the time / GCP raises 70% of the time" -- this is the sample ratio of one cross-tabulation, not a census of all AWS/GCP price changes (the release's survey overview notes GCP has excluded items, and the original does not state whether the A3 Ultra exclusion is included in those 5 items). The largest hikes in the tally, the EC2 Capacity Blocks 2 items, are media reports with no official AWS notice, weaker in sourcing than items backed by official What's New. AINews did not re-verify the AWS/GCP official pages (official_count_verified=0); all figures are presented as the vendor's claim and cannot be treated as official confirmation. "Up to 20% reduction" is the CloudCut vendor's maximum from past deployments -- not a guarantee, not a typical value. Other caveats: see the Caveats section. [J-001][J-002]

Body

Main fact (F-001): the vendor's own cross-tabulation of 30 items, cuts a majority in the combined view

Per the main source (PRTIMES#1568314, issued by Kabushiki-gaisha 〇, CloudCut Division): using AWS's official "What's New with AWS" and Google Cloud's official price-change notices/official blog, the vendor cross-collected price changes over February 2025-July 2026, tabulating only those "for which first-party corroboration could be obtained," yielding 30 items. Combined (30-item basis, Feb 2025-Jul 2026): 10 hikes (33.3%), 20 cuts (66.7%). The release frames the problem as "even on a cloud service you already subscribe to, the price may have changed without you noticing." [F-001]

By provider (F-002): AWS cut nearly 90%, GCP raised over 70% -- all within the 30-item sample

The release's per-provider breakdown (all within the 30-item sample above; period February 2025-July 2026):

On this basis, within the vendor's 30-item sample (Feb 2025-Jul 2026), the release states that although cuts are the majority in the combined view, "by provider the tendency is the exact opposite" -- AWS cuts near 90% (the vendor's phrasing: "revisions centered on cost-optimization benefits that users can readily enjoy"), GCP hikes over 70% (the vendor's phrasing: "burden-increasing revisions stand out"). This contrast holds only within that 30-item sample and must not be extrapolated to either provider's overall pricing policy (see the Caveats section). [F-002][J-002]

By category (F-003): compute + database about 53%

The release sorts the 30 items into 5 categories (all within the 30-item sample; period February 2025-July 2026):

Compute (8) and database (8) together make 16 items, about 53% of the 30. The release interprets this as "many revisions tied to AI-related workloads such as GPU instances and large-scale data processing" (the vendor's interpretation, quoted). [F-003]

The two largest hikes (F-004): EC2 Capacity Blocks -- no official AWS notice, media-reported

The release states explicitly: the single largest hike in the tally is AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML (a mechanism for reserving ML-oriented GPU instances in advance). About 15% hike around January 2026 (targets P5e/P5en, H200 series), about 20% hike around June 2026 (targets P6-B300/B200/P5 series). For these two, the release explicitly notes that AWS did not issue an official price-change notice (not found in What's New with AWS); rather, the price-page changes came to light through reporting by multiple overseas media. The sourcing nature of these two is a different tier from items backed by official What's New / official blog, and this card labels them separately and does not conflate them. [F-004][J-002]

Representative changes (F-005, each with a source date): cuts and hikes belong to different providers/services

Representative items from the release's "reference data / sources" section (each with a source date; all first-party-reachable) --

AWS cut representatives: 2025-02-06 GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3, data-scan fee cut up to 85%; 2025-06-12 SageMaker AI GPU (P4d/P4de/P5/P5e/P5en) cut up to 45%; 2025-06-12 Verified Permissions cut up to 97%; 2025-07-15 S3 Tables compaction cost cut up to 90%; 2025-12-02 RDS for SQL Server commercial-software cost cut up to 55%; 2025-12-17 Payment Cryptography API requests cut up to 63%; 2026-06-16 S3 Vectors query-processing charges cut up to 80%; 2026-06-16 AWS Marketplace listing fee 2.5%->0.5%; 2026-07-07 EKS Auto Mode / ECS Managed Instances GPU management fee down 35-60%.

GCP hike representatives: 2025-02-21 onward, new charges for cross-BigQuery x Cloud Storage data processing (outside the same region) and 2026-02-01 onward (multi-region), 2 items total; 2026-05-01 CDN Interconnect/Peering, North America $0.04->$0.08/GB (1.4-2x depending on region); 2025-11-01 Cloud Build default pool (e2) up to 60% increase in some regions; 2026-03-02 Backup for GKE increase.

GCP cut representatives: 2025-11-01 Cloud Build private pool cut 40-50%; 2025-08-27 GKE Standard paid tier folded into free; around April 2025 BigQuery CUD (1-year 10% / 3-year 20% discount).

(All figures above are as listed item by item in the main source, each with a source date; items are not summed and are not combined into a single sentence with other sources to manufacture a comparison.) [F-005]

In-depth synthesis (genuine analysis, using only already-cited facts): revisions concentrate in AI-related workloads, but the direction is opposite by provider

Reading F-002 and F-003 together reveals a structure that the release's own figures pin down: price changes concentrate in the AI-related-workload domain (compute + database = 16 items, about 53% [F-003]) -- but the direction is exactly opposite by provider. On the AWS side, the release characterizes the cuts (including SageMaker AI GPU up to 45% [2025-06-12] and S3 Vectors query charges up to 80% [2026-06-16] [F-005]) as "cost-optimization benefits"; on the GCP side, the release attributes the hikes (including the two new cross-BigQuery x Cloud Storage charges [2025-02-21 / 2026-02-01] [F-005]) to burden increases in the "AI / data-utilization domain." The key point: the release attributes only the hike side to GPU scarcity and surging AI-related demand, and does not claim that "AWS's cuts, too, are driven by GPU scarcity." This card therefore does not bundle the two opposite directions into "the same causation," and the only thing it confirms is one point: the hot zone of revisions lands in AI-related domains for both, while the direction (up/down) differs by provider and service ([F-002][F-003][F-004]). This "surging AI-related demand" structural pressure is the same source as the AI-data-center demand surge this outlet documented in ANK-2026-06-24-003; this card captures that same structure from the "cloud-billing" angle (see the Internal Citation Chain). [F-002][F-003][F-004]

Reading between the lines (pinned to the document, not conspiracy): what the issuer of this "own tabulation" sells is the remedy

One point, proven by the release's own structure, must be pinned down: the issuer of this cross-tabulation is Kabushiki-gaisha 〇 itself -- the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut" -- not a neutral third-party research body. After presenting the 30-item tally, the release immediately pivots to "solution: review contracts via an AWS/Google Cloud authorized partner (reseller)" and "CloudCut's value proposition (up to 20% reduction)" -- that is, the survey's problem framing (hikes and cuts are mixed, users hardly notice their prices have changed, therefore periodic review is important) aligns exactly in direction with the vendor's own sales proposition. Moreover, the same vendor had earlier, on 2026-05-27, issued another PR TIMES release announcing CloudCut's launch (AINews corpus id=520095, touting "average 20% reduction" -- a different expression with a different source from this main release's "up to 20% reduction," which must not be conflated). This is not a claim that the 30-item breakdown is wrong (this site has no such evidence); it is the source-stance caveat a citer must always attach: this tabulation is the vendor's claim carrying a commercial stance, a self-issued tally placed in the context of its product, not a neutral census. This is precisely why this card characterizes all figures as "the vendor's claim" and sets official_count_verified=0. [J-001][F-006]

Caveats (source limits, single block)

• Issuer and stance: the issuer of the main source is Kabushiki-gaisha 〇, the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut" (HQ Shibuya, Tokyo; parent domain lei-inc.jp), not a neutral third-party research body; after the tally the release pivots to its own solution and CloudCut value proposition; the same vendor separately announced CloudCut's launch on 2026-05-27 (AINews id=520095, touting "average 20% reduction" -- a different expression from this release's "up to 20% reduction," not to be conflated). The entire tally is characterized as "the vendor's claim carrying a commercial stance," neither official data nor a neutral census.
• Sample != census (red line): every "AWS cut ~90% / GCP raised ~70%" and any comparison is strictly limited to the vendor's own 30-item sample (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, first-party-reachable items only); it must not be extrapolated into an AWS/GCP-wide price-change trend or pricing policy.
• Excluded items and the original's notes: the release's survey overview states "items whose first-party URL could not be reached (5 GCP items) are excluded from the tabulation," while the release's tail note separately says GCP "A3 Ultra GPU VM (Europe/Asia) hike" was excluded because a duplicate URL made its existence unconfirmable and its source undetermined. The original separately notes A3 Ultra's exclusion reason but does not state whether it is included in the 5 GCP items; this card presents both notes as-is and does not reconcile them.
• Official anchor = 0: official_count_verified=0 -- AINews did not re-verify the AWS/GCP official pages; all figures are a tabulation of sources the vendor presented as first-party = the vendor's claim, and must not be written as "AINews-verified official data" or made to appear as if AWS/GCP officially back this tabulation.
• EC2 Capacity Blocks 2 items are unofficial: the two largest hikes (about 15% / about 20%) are explicitly marked as having no official AWS notice, with multiple overseas media reporting the price-page changes; they are weaker in sourcing than items backed by official What's New and must not be conflated.
• "Up to 20% reduction" limit: CloudCut's "up to 20% reduction" is the vendor's maximum from past deployments, not a guarantee or a typical value; the actual reduction varies with usage scale, contract term, and current configuration (release footnote).
• Time basis: this card's publish date 2026-07-18 >= the latest source date (main source published 2026-07-18 01:00 JST = a conversion of the DB metadata 2026-07-17 UTC, noted); every sentence containing a comparison word states its time basis in the same sentence (each change's specific source date, or the tabulation period "Feb 2025-Jul 2026, 30-item basis"); apart from format conversion, no new figures are generated and no ratio/total absent from the original is computed.
• This card assigns no Wikidata Q number (this shift did no registry verification; when in doubt, leave it off).

FAQ

Q: Is this "AWS cut 90%, GCP raised 70%" tabulation a census? How reliable is it?

It is not a census; it is the sample ratio of one cross-tabulation. Per Kabushiki-gaisha 〇's (the CloudCut vendor's) PR TIMES release: using AWS's official "What's New with AWS" and Google Cloud's official notices/official blog as sources, it independently cross-tabulated February 2025-July 2026 and obtained 30 items with a reachable first-party source -- AWS cut 17 of 19 (89.5%), GCP raised 8 of 11 (72.7%). This ratio holds only within that 30-item sample; the release has GCP excluded items (and the original does not state whether the A3 Ultra exclusion is included in those 5 items), so it cannot be extrapolated to either provider's overall price trend. AINews did not re-verify the official pages (official_count_verified=0) and presents everything as the vendor's claim.

See the Caveats section (PRTIMES#1568314).

Q: What is the "largest hike" in the tally, and is its sourcing solid?

Per the main source: the largest hike is AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML (a mechanism for reserving ML-oriented GPU instances) -- about 15% around January 2026 (P5e/P5en, H200 series), about 20% around June 2026 (P6-B300/B200/P5 series). But the release states explicitly: for these two, AWS issued no official notice (not found in What's New with AWS); the price-page changes came to light through reporting by multiple overseas media. That is, the two most eye-catching "largest hikes" in the tally are weaker in sourcing than items backed by official What's New; this site labels them in a separate tier and does not conflate them with official notices.

See the Body (F-004) and the Caveats section (PRTIMES#1568314).

Q: Who issued this tabulation? Is "up to 20% reduction" a guarantee?

The issuer is Kabushiki-gaisha 〇 itself, the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut," not a neutral third-party research body. After presenting the 30-item tally, the release immediately pivots to its own solution (reviewing contracts via an authorized partner) and CloudCut's value proposition -- since the survey's framing aligns in direction with the vendor's sales proposition, this card characterizes it as "the vendor's claim carrying a commercial stance," not a neutral census. "Up to 20% reduction" is the CloudCut vendor's maximum from past deployments -- not a guarantee or a typical value; the actual reduction varies with usage scale, contract term, and current configuration (release footnote). This does not mean the breakdown is wrong; it is the source-stance caveat that must be attached when citing.

See the Caveats section (PRTIMES#1568314).

F-Units

F-001: The vendor's own cross-tabulation -- per the main source: Kabushiki-gaisha 〇 (the CloudCut vendor), using AWS's official "What's New with AWS" and Google Cloud's official price-change notices/official blog as sources, cross-collected price changes over February 2025-July 2026, tabulating only those with first-party corroboration, and obtained 30 items; combined, 10 hikes (33.3%) / 20 cuts (66.7%)

• source: PRTIMES #1568314
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: medium
• basis: official_statement (issuer = the CloudCut vendor's own tabulation claim, not official data)
• period: tabulation period February 2025-July 2026; published 2026-07-18 01:00 JST (a conversion of the DB metadata 2026-07-17 UTC)
• caveat: 30 items = the vendor's sample of first-party-reachable items, not a census; AINews did not re-verify the official pages (official_count_verified=0); GCP has excluded items and the original does not state whether the A3 Ultra exclusion is included in the 5 GCP items (see the Caveats section)
• layer: primary anchor (main-source main fact)

F-002: By-provider contrast (within the 30-item sample; period February 2025-July 2026) -- AWS: of 19, 17 cuts (89.5%) / 2 hikes (10.5%); GCP: of 11, 8 hikes (72.7%) / 3 cuts (27.3%); combined: of 30, 20 cuts (66.7%) / 10 hikes (33.3%)

• source: PRTIMES #1568314
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: medium
• basis: official_statement
• period: tabulation period February 2025-July 2026, 30-item basis
• caveat: the contrast holds only within the 30-item sample; extrapolation to either provider's overall pricing policy is prohibited; vendor's claim, not re-verified by this site
• layer: primary anchor (main-source main fact)

F-003: By-category breakdown (within the total 30-item sample) -- Compute 8 (AWS 5 [3 cut, 2 hike] / GCP 3 [2 cut, 1 hike]); Storage 4 (AWS 3 [3 cut] / GCP 1 [1 hike]); Database 8 (AWS 4 [4 cut] / GCP 4 [1 cut, 3 hike]); Network 4 (AWS 2 [2 cut] / GCP 2 [2 hike]); Other 6 (AWS 5 [5 cut] / GCP 1 [1 hike]); Compute + Database = 16 (about 53%)

• source: PRTIMES #1568314
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: medium
• basis: official_statement
• period: tabulation period February 2025-July 2026, 30-item basis
• caveat: "many revisions tied to AI-related workloads" is the vendor's interpretation, quoted; "about 53%" is stated in the release (16/30); this card does not generate a separate ratio
• layer: primary anchor (main-source main fact)

F-004: The two largest hikes (unofficial) -- AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML: about 15% hike around January 2026 (P5e/P5en, H200 series), about 20% hike around June 2026 (P6-B300/B200/P5 series); for these two, AWS issued no official notice (not found in What's New with AWS), and the price-page changes were reported by multiple overseas media

• source: PRTIMES #1568314
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: low (no official AWS notice, media-reported; sourcing weaker than other official What's New items)
• basis: official_statement (relayed via the main source; not an AWS official notice)
• period: about 15% = around January 2026; about 20% = around June 2026 (per the release)
• caveat: these two are the largest hikes in the tally but the weakest in sourcing; do not conflate with items backed by official What's New
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (the release's background / largest-hike item)

F-005: Representative changes (each with a source date; first-party-reachable) -- AWS cut representatives: GuardDuty S3 up to 85% [2025-02-06]; SageMaker AI GPU up to 45% [2025-06-12]; Verified Permissions up to 97% [2025-06-12]; S3 Tables compaction up to 90% [2025-07-15]; RDS for SQL Server up to 55% [2025-12-02]; Payment Cryptography up to 63% [2025-12-17]; S3 Vectors query charges up to 80% [2026-06-16]; Marketplace listing fee 2.5%->0.5% [2026-06-16]; EKS/ECS GPU management fee down 35-60% [2026-07-07]; GCP hike representatives: cross-BigQuery x Cloud Storage new charges, 2 items [2025-02-21 / 2026-02-01]; CDN Interconnect/Peering North America $0.04->$0.08/GB [2026-05-01]; Cloud Build default pool (e2) up to 60% increase [2025-11-01]; Backup for GKE increase [2026-03-02]; GCP cut representatives: Cloud Build private pool cut 40-50% [2025-11-01]; GKE Standard paid tier folded into free [2025-08-27]; BigQuery CUD 1-year 10% / 3-year 20% discount [around April 2025]

• source: PRTIMES #1568314
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: medium
• basis: official_statement (each change is the vendor's tabulation citing official What's New / official blog; this site did not re-verify each official page item by item)
• period: each item carries a source date (above)
• caveat: items are not summed and not combined with other sources into a single sentence to manufacture a comparison; each figure is the single item's original max value/magnitude
• layer: primary anchor (the release's representative items)

F-006: CloudCut's "up to 20% reduction" = the vendor's maximum from past deployments (release footnote), not a guarantee or a typical value; the actual reduction varies with usage scale, contract term, and current configuration; the same vendor separately announced CloudCut's launch on 2026-05-27 (AINews id=520095, touting "average 20% reduction" -- a different expression, different source from this main release's "up to 20% reduction," not to be conflated)

• source: PRTIMES #1568314（「最大20%削減」脚注）；AINews #520095（同社先行リリース、2026-05-27、對照用背景）
• source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
• confidence: medium
• basis: official_statement
• period: main source published 2026-07-18; earlier release 2026-05-27
• caveat: "up to 20%" and "average 20%" are different expressions from two different PR TIMES releases; do not conflate or sum; both are vendor self-reports, not re-verified by this site
• layer: CONTEXTUALIZE (background on the issuer's stance)

J-Units

J-001: Issuer-stance caveat (reading between the lines, pinned to the release's own structure) -- the issuer of this cross-tabulation is Kabushiki-gaisha 〇 itself, the vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut," not a neutral third-party research body; after presenting the 30-item tally, the release immediately pivots to "solution = review contracts via an authorized partner" and "CloudCut's value proposition (up to 20% reduction)," so the survey's framing aligns in direction with the vendor's sales proposition; evidence = the release's own "Solution" and "CloudCut value proposition" sections, plus the vendor's earlier release id=520095 (2026-05-27 CloudCut launch). This is not a claim that the 30-item breakdown is wrong (this site has no such evidence), but the source-stance caveat a citer must attach: the entire tally is the vendor's claim carrying a commercial stance, a self-issued tally in its product's context, not a neutral census

• confidence: high
• basis: press_release_structure (the main source's verbatim structure + corpus background id=520095)

J-002: Sample boundary and official-anchor caveat -- every "AWS cut ~90% / GCP raised ~70%" and any comparison is limited to the vendor's 30-item sample (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, first-party-reachable only); extrapolation to either provider's overall price trend is prohibited; the release's survey overview excludes 5 GCP items for unreachable URLs, while the tail note separately excludes GCP "A3 Ultra GPU VM" for a duplicate URL -- the original does not state whether the A3 Ultra exclusion is included in those 5 items and this card presents both notes as-is without reconciling; official_count_verified=0, AINews did not re-verify the AWS/GCP official pages, everything is the vendor's claim and is not treated as official corroboration; the two largest hikes (EC2 Capacity Blocks) carry no official AWS notice and are media-reported, weaker in sourcing than other official What's New items

• confidence: high
• basis: press_release (the main source's survey overview / tail note, verbatim)

P-Units

P-001: Future price-change trend -- the release states "cloud-provider price changes are expected to continue at a certain frequency going forward, against a backdrop of expanding AI-related demand and GPU/hardware supply-demand" = the vendor's outlook, not verified by this site, observable going forward (open)

P-002: Official AWS confirmation of the EC2 Capacity Blocks 2 hikes -- this site did not check the AWS official pages; if an AWS official notice can be confirmed, the sourcing tier of these two can be re-assessed (open)

同事件・三視角 / Three Perspectives on the Same Event / 同一イベント・三つの視点

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Internal Citation Chain

This card cites 2 published cards from this site (relation = CONTEXTUALIZE/CONNECT, the same structural pressure of surging AI-data-center demand captured from the cloud-billing angle; not the same event; no comparison figures generated):

• ANK-2026-06-24-003 "AI Data Centers Hit the Grid: Japan and Taiwan Pivot Simultaneously to 'Grid-Scale Storage + Interconnection Discipline' Governance -- Gap Between Connection Application and Post-Operation Demand Becomes the Shared Challenge" (published 2026-06-25) -> Relation (CONNECT): that card documents how surging AI-data-center demand directly hits the power grid (figure caveats: see that card); this card captures the same structural pressure that the main source cites -- "surging AI-related demand / GPU scarcity" -- from the "cloud-billing" angle; structural-context comparison only, not the same event, no comparison figures generated. Links: zh / ja / en
• ANK-2026-06-24-008 "Taiwan-Japan AI data-center build-out: Taiwan's first compute-center BOO case is still under review (NT$300m investment floor, 15 PetaFLOPS compute floor) vs Osaka's JPY 156 billion 'largest single-asset' deal, with JLL projecting Japan's DC market at US$33.4 billion by 2030" (published 2026-06-28) -> Relation (CONTEXTUALIZE): that card documents the AI-data-center build-out rush and DC-market-size projection (figure caveats: see that card); this card complements the same AI-infrastructure demand structure from the cloud-price-change angle; context comparison only, not the same event, no comparison figures generated. Links: zh / ja / en

Corpus deepening (attributed background facts only, no new figures generated): AINews id=520095 (2026-05-27, prtimes, JP, the vendor's CloudCut launch release, contrast on issuer stance); AINews id=1286102 (2026-07-01, prtimes, JP, Kabushiki-gaisha Getworks, surging demand for water-cooled GPU-server container data centers -- an independent report corroborating the main source's "GPU scarcity / surging AI-related demand" background).

Sources

1. [PRTIMES #1568314] (primary anchor) PR TIMES (release by Kabushiki-gaisha 〇, CloudCut Division; issuer = a cloud-cost-reduction service vendor), original title: "[Own cross-tabulation] 30 AWS/GCP price changes | AWS cut 90%, GCP raised over 70% -- CloudCut finds a way out with up to 20% reduction" (JA original: "【独自横断集計】AWS/GCP価格改定30件｜AWS9割値下げ・GCP7割超値上げ——CloudCutが最大20%削減で活路"), published 2026-07-18 01:00 JST (a conversion of the DB metadata 2026-07-17 UTC). https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000015.000183887.html
2. [AINews #520095] (background / contrast) PR TIMES (the vendor's / LEI,inc. CloudCut launch release), 2026-05-27, JP. Used to pin down the issuer's stance; not a figure source. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000003.000183887.html
3. [AINews #1286102] (background / corroboration) PR TIMES (Kabushiki-gaisha Getworks, surging demand for water-cooled GPU-server container data centers), 2026-07-01, JP. Used to corroborate the main source's GPU-scarcity background; not a figure source for this tabulation. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000034.000141706.html