HPC Cloud Updates WE 07 Dec 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS re:Invent ensures plenty of AWS news this week!
AWS
Graviton 5 is on its way
AWS introduces Graviton5—the company’s most powerful and efficient CPU
Fifth generation chip provides the best price performance for a broad range of workloads in Amazon EC2.
Amazon Staff
Now in preview in M9g form
Announcing new Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors (Preview) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing new Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors (Preview)
5GHz CPU? No problem! New M8azn is also in preview
Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview)
also in 32GB of RAM per vCPU flavour
Announcing new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz Instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz Instances
If you need lots of memory but need to stay on Intel that’s fine too
Announcing Amazon EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances (Preview) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing Amazon EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances (Preview)
You can also have Intel’s Granite Rapids in network accelerated flavour
AWS previews EC2 C8ine instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS previews EC2 C8ine instances
Need some accelerated compute instead? How about some Nvidia GB300?
Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available
Want to train your own AI model to do HPC? Now you can
Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own Frontier Models using Nova - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own Frontier Models using Nova
Azure
Want to automate your HPC workflow with Clippy (mk2)?
Automating HPC Workflows with Copilot Agents
Automating HPC Workflows with Copilot Agents
xpillons
Trusted Launch available on ARM VMs now
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Azure Managed Lustre in preview
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud
Want to run multi cloud across AWS and Google? Just got a bit easier.
AWS and Google Cloud collaborate on multicloud networking | Google Cloud Blog
AWS and Google Cloud’s jointly engineered multicloud networking solution uses AWS Interconnect - multicloud and Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Interconnect.
