HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Jun 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. FSx for Lustre gets some love, Azure gives us an AI Infra repo and a couple of other nice additions.
AWS
FSx for Lustre gets some love giving it low cost fully elastic storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage | Amazon Web Services
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class provides cost-effective, virtually unlimited elastic file storage for ML and HPC workloads that automatically optimizes costs by tiering data based on access frequency.
New instances: C|M|R8gd now available in Spain
Azure
AI Infrastructure (HPC by its current marketing name for one vertical) repository for Azure now available
Announcing the AI Infrastructure on Azure repository | Microsoft Community Hub
Today we’re excited to release the AI Infrastructure on Azure repository—a one-stop reference for teams building large-scale AI clusters on…
wolfgangdesalvador
Finally, a way to set quotas across subscriptions within an enterprise. Let your teams spin up their own ephemeral compute clusters within their own subscriptions and manage it at the enterprise level.
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Private subnets available too now to secure those ephemeral supercomputers a bit better
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Google Cloud
Committed use discounts now available for RHEL
Get committed use discounts for RHEL | Google Cloud Blog
Committed use discounts (‘CUDs’) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux can save as much as 20% on subscription costs compared to on-demand prices.
