HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Nov 2025

AWS

Everything HPC that happened in AWS last month

October was busy for HPC in the cloud | Amazon Web Services

It’s been a busy month in the world of HPC on AWS: we’ve seen new data sets, refinements to cluster operations, and deeper thinking about how workloads map to infrastructure. For our customers driving R&D with HPC, those changes matter (and yes, the nerd in me is quietly excited). In today’s post, we’ll tell you […]

Amazon Web Services

Might make adopting cloud for HPC easier for some. FSx can integrate with AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for enhanced management of Active Directory credentials - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for enhanced management of Active Directory credentials

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New AMD Zen 5 memory optimized VMs with R8a

Announcing New EC2 R8a Memory-Optimized Instances - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Announcing New EC2 R8a Memory-Optimized Instances

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

This looks interesting for serving realtime / interactive HPC workloads

EC2 Auto Scaling announces warm pool support for Auto Scaling groups that have mixed instances policies - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with EC2 Auto Scaling announces warm pool support for Auto Scaling groups that have mixed instances policies

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Azure

New HBv5 memory bandwidth optimized HPC VMs

Announcing Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines: A Breakthrough in Memory Bandwidth for HPC | Microsoft Community Hub

Discover the new Azure HBv5 Virtual Machines, unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, designed for high-performance computing applications. With up to 7 TB/s of memory…

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Google Cloud

New TPUs and Axion powered VMs with the N4A

Ironwood TPUs and new Axion-based VMs for your AI workloads | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud’s compute portfolio now includes Ironwood TPUs and Axion-based N4A VMs and C4A bare metal.

Google Cloud

Need bare metal in your ARM flavoured cloud compute. You can get Axion in bare metal flavours now

New Axion C4A metal offers bare metal performance on Arm | Google Cloud Blog

C4A.metal is Google Cloud’s first Axion bare metal machine type, providing custom Arm CPUs for workloads like Android dev and automotive simulation.

Google Cloud

They also claim Axion is twice as good on a price performance basis than x86 based VMs. Show your work please. I don’t believe you and our testing shows otherwise. Ah yes sorry there’s that sneaky “up to” in the headline…. That statement isn’t true for anything shaped like HPC I’m afraid...

Axion-based N4A VMs now in preview | Google Cloud Blog

Lower the TCO of scale-out workloads like GKE and web servers. Google Cloud’s new N4A VMs deliver breakthrough price-performance and flexible shapes.

Google Cloud