HPC Cloud Updates WE 02 Jun 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
Ever felt a little short on RAM for your simulations or maybe your caches? New u7i large memory instances should sort you out
Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases | Amazon Web Services
Unleash unparalleled power with U7i instances: up to 32 TiB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, and unmatched performance for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Jeff Barr
FSx for Lustre now available in US East
Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS US East (Atlanta) Local Zone - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS US East (Atlanta) Local Zone
Azure
Need a hand testing the loss of compute nodes on Azure? Maybe this will help
Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines.
Hibernation for VMs now GA. Bring additional capacity online even faster?
General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Hibernate VMs when not in use to save compute costs, while persisting the in-memory state.
GCP
Quiet week from Google. I’m sure they’re busy finding plausible reasons to explain why search works nothing like how they claimed it did 😊
