HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Sep 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Fairly quiet week again. We have a new AWS Region in New Zealand and more flexible ways to save on HPC compute on Google.
AWS
New Zealand Region is now open for business!
Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region | Amazon Web Services
AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations.
Donnie Prakoso
Want to make sure your HPC estate is all running on the same OS? You can now more easily check which AMIs are being used
What’s New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News
Azure
Not a whole lot going on here. There’s some price reductions on Azure Ultra Disk including in UK South, Central US and West US 2 but that’s your bag.
Google Cloud
More flexible ways to save on your Google Compute spend that includes HPC VMs.
Expanded coverage for Compute Flex CUDs | Google Cloud Blog
Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs) now cover memory-optimized and HPC VM families and Cloud Run.
