HPC Cloud Updates WE 10 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Couple of nice updates to AWS Parallel Computing Service and a bunch of instances types in new regions and confidential computing on Azure.

Parallel Computing Service now support IPv6
What’s New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News
Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm plugins (SPANK)
What’s New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News
Attribute based access control in S3
What’s New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News
New instances: c7g in Bahrain, Cape Town and Jakarta, r7gd in Cape Town, Seoul and Milan, m7gd in Seoul, m7i in the UAE, m7i and m7i-flex in Osaka, c8g in Seoul, Jakarta, Hyderabad, Thailand
Azure
128 and 192 vCPU Esv6 machines now generally available
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Public preview of confidential VMs on Azure Linux and Ubuntu
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Google Cloud
Not this week.