By Hamza in HPC Cloud Release Notes — Apr 12, 2026

HPC Cloud Updates WE 12 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. A new Azure region, a filesystem over AWS S3 and running GPUs at scale from Google.

AWS

Perhaps not strictly HPC but I’m already aware of people using S3 (and other BLOB storage exposing an S3 API) in HPC workloads that I’m fairly sure that won’t be long before we see HPC running on top of this too

Maybe a little more HPC. NetApp is available in London, Hyderabad and Sao Paolo now

Second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in four additional AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in four additional AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

This might help allocate costs to your HPC clients if you’re running a platform with multiple users

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager now supports tag-based dimensions - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager now supports tag-based dimensions

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New Regional Instances: X8i in Paris

Azure

New Azure region in Denmark

I guess if you’re trying to run LLM inference using K8 this could be relevant.

Google Cloud

Google gave us a guide on building GPU infrastructure

but also claims of better carbon efficient of its Ironwood TPUs