HPC Cloud Updates WE 05 Apr 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Log aggregation for Slurm on Azure and faster VM startup
AWS
Neither I nor my AI bot could find anything from AWS this past week. Not even a new regional instance going live. I guess they’re too busy battling the fires Kiro lit.
Azure
Need a centralised way to look at your HPC logs? Want a turnkey solution for Cycle Cloud Workspace for Slurm? Azure has some ideas
Simplify troubleshooting at scale - Centralized Log Management for CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm | Microsoft Community Hub
Training large AI models on hundreds or thousands of nodes introduces a critical operational challenge: when a distributed job fails, quickly identifying the…
jesselopez
This could be handy, especially if building HPC capacity using spot compute. It's still in preview but we’ll definitely be playing with this to see the potential impact.
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud
Nope. Nothing here either.
