HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Feb 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

AWS
Running your HPC workloads on AWS Batch under EKS? I’m sorry to hear that 😁 In the mean time AWS at least has some update to make your life better
Adding configurable namespaces, persistent volume claims, and other features for AWS Batch on Amazon EKS | Amazon Web Services
Exciting updates to AWS Batch on Amazon EKS! Configurable namespaces, persistent volume claims, and more. Check out our blog post to see how these features can help manage your complex containerized workloads.

Another new EC2 type with an accelerator and not even a GPU. New f2 instances with AMD EPYC CPUs and FPGAs now available. Now available in US East, US West and London.
Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size

Using FSx and sick of paying for IPv4 addresses. It finally supports IPv6 now
Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs

New EC2 types: u7i is available in Seoul, m6in and m6idn in Zurich, c6in in Malaysia
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich)

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)

Azure
All quiet over at Redmond on the HPC front
Google Cloud
and in Mountain View too it seems.