HPC Cloud Updates WE 03 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Fractional GPUs, a new Intel VM but that’s kinda your lot this week.
AWS
A little aerospace focused but it has some parts with general applicability too and a little salesly but then I guess that’s to be expected
Following on from the update that allows you not to wait for a graceful OS exit prior to shutting down an EC2 instance, you can now also forcefully terminate one that refuses to exit cleanly within a set time period
Fractional GPUs! AWS have finally started renting VMs with less than a whole GPU for those workloads that don’t require them
AWS Lambda functions to scale your EC2… hmm interesting…
Azure
Keep on scrolling. Nothing to see here.
Google Cloud
New 5th generation (Emerald Rapids) Intel Xeon c4 VM family is now generally available
