HPC Cloud Updates WE 12 Jan 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

AWS
Another brand new AWS region came online last week with Asia Pacific (Thailand) opening its virtual doors and becoming GA.
Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region | Amazon Web Services
AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now!

Compute Optimiser will now deal with scaling groups too
AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

c8g the latest Graviton based compute focused instances are now also available in Ireland and Spain, c7i in GovCloud US-West
Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Azure
If you’re the type that really likes a challenge and you want to run your HPC on K8 and use ZFS then our friends over at Azure have felt similarly inclined and have some tips for you
Deploying ZFS Scratch Storage for NVMe on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Microsoft Community Hub
This guide demonstrates how to use ZFS LocalPV to efficiently manage the NVMe storage available on Azure NDv5 H100 VMs. Equipped with eight 3.5TB NVMe disks,…
Google Cloud
All quiet on the HPC front at Google this week.