HPC Cloud Updates WE 02 Mar 2025

AWS

Anyone that’s worked in HPC long enough will know the joys of having accidentally carried out a DDoS attack on another internal service as some code accidentally makes its way to every compute node AWS Batch has a nice way to allow you do that in a more controlled fashion.

How to use rate-limited resources in AWS Batch jobs with resource aware scheduling | Amazon Web Services

Struggling with bottlenecks in your batch processing? AWS Batch’s new resource aware scheduling capability could be the solution your business needs. This feature allows you to define and manage consumable resources, helping maximize the use of your compute power. Check out our blog to learn more.

Amazon Web Services

EC2 Fleet can now add block device mapping overrides

Amazon EC2 Fleet added support for Block Device Mapping overrides - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Fleet added support for Block Device Mapping overrides

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Need to be sure your latest AMIs are in every region within a certain time period. Time based copy makes that possible now

Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New instances this week: f2 in Sydney, m6a in Paris, u3tb in Zurich

Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)

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Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris)

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Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region

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Azure

Nothing this week from Redmond

Google Cloud

Not much to report but if you happen to be in Austin, Texas on March 11^th then you may want to drop in and hear about their plans for HPC in the future from Bill Magro