HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Feb 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We get Intel, AMD and ARM powered VMs from Azure and Google week.
AWS
New Regional Instances: R8a in Spain and Frankfurt, R7gd in Paris
Azure
New AMD 5th generation (Turin) CPU powered VMs now generally available in Dasv7, Easv7 and Fasv7 families
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and Intel Xeon 6 (Granite Rapids) CPU powered version are also in public preview with Dlsv7, Dsv7 and Esv7 machine families
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Maybe a little more AI than HPC but I guess AI is just an HPC workload right?
Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference - The Official Microsoft Blog
Today, we’re proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: an accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, a redesigned memory system with 216GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s and 272MB of on-chip SRAM, plus…
Scott Guthrie
Google Cloud
N4A, axion CPU powered VMs are now generally available
Axion-based N4A VMs now in preview | Google Cloud Blog
Lower the TCO of scale-out workloads like GKE and web servers. Google Cloud’s new N4A VMs deliver breakthrough price-performance and flexible shapes.
