HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Jun 2025

AWS

The new Taipei region is now live

Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region | Amazon Web Services

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region is generally available with three Availability Zones and Region code ap-east-2. The new Region brings AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Taiwan. Skyline of Taipei including the Taipei 101 building As the first infrastructure Region in Taipei and the fifteenth Region […]

Amazon Web Services

Managing your storage gets a little easier with the ability to delete EBS snapshots upon AMI deregistration. You’ll probably never get round changing your existing automation but if you haven’t built it yet it just got a tiny bit easier.

Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Price drops on GPUs… out of the kindness of Jassy’s heart I’m sure… I have more to say but perhaps that will have to wait.

Pricing and usage model updates for Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Pricing and usage model updates for Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Want to isolate yourself from the US for your cloud experience but stay on AWS? They have something to sell you

Built, operated, controlled, and secured in Europe: AWS unveils new sovereign controls and governance structure for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will have local European leadership, independent governance, and a dedicated Security Operations Center.

EU About AmazonWritten by About Amazon Team

New Instances: m7g in US West Gov, c7a in London, i4i in Spain, u7i in Frankfurt

Azure

Bit quiet over at Redmond this last week. Maybe I’ll have something interesting during ISC…

Google Cloud

Air gapped AI? Googles answer to Europe demanding impendence from the Great Orange?

Using GDC Sandbox to emulate air-gapped environments | Google Cloud Blog

GDC Sandbox lets you build, demo, train, and demo workloads before transferring them to a production GDC air-gapped environment.

Google Cloud