AWS pricing is not only a USD story

AWS publishes this price in US dollars. A customer paying in another currency experiences the same invoice through a moving exchange rate. That can make a flat AWS list price more expensive or cheaper locally, without AWS changing the price at all.

This page holds a $100 monthly AWS invoice constant and asks a simple question: what did that same invoice cost in each local currency over time?

The same AWS bill, indexed

Every line starts at 0%. A value of +12% means the same $100 invoice costs 12% more in that currency than it did at the beginning of this series. A value of -9% means it costs 9% less.

What the latest month says

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This is exchange-rate exposure, not an AWS price-change claim. AWS pricing, consumption, tax, payment terms, hedging, and bank conversion costs can all change a customer’s actual bill. The point is narrower: holding the USD invoice constant isolates one pressure that a USD-only price chart cannot see.

The exchange rates are end-of-month ECB reference rates. The USD-to-local rate is calculated from the ECB’s EUR reference series; the rate date is kept with each record. See the ECB exchange-rate dataset used to create the static data file.