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HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Apr 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. News from Google Cloud Next and rather a lot of new EC2 instance types in various locations.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Apr 2025

AWS

Want to get a handle on your HPC costs on AWS and need a guide that doesn’t need an AWS qualification to understand? Take a read of this by Alex:

The frugal HPC architect – ensuring effective FinOps for HPC workloads at scale | Amazon Web Services
Running High Performance Computing workloads in AWS offers immense scale and flexibility, but many on-premises approaches to cost management don’t apply in the cloud. In this post we explore the key levers to reducing unit costs, understanding consumption, and how efficiency and effectiveness are key measures of success.
Amazon Web Services

Staying on the cost theme, AWS Cost Optimizer now supports a bunch more instances

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 new Amazon EC2 instance types - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 new Amazon EC2 instance types
Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Quite the list of new EC2 instances this week! i4g in Sao Paolo, l7ie bare metal sizes in N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo, r6id in Spain, m6id in California, c6in in Osaka, m8g in Mumbai and Hyderabad, m7i and r7i in Melbourne

Amazon EC2 I4g instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 I4g instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Introducing two new Amazon EC2 I7ie bare metal instances sizes - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Introducing two new Amazon EC2 I7ie bare metal instances sizes
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon EC2 R6id instances are now available in Europe (Spain) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 R6id instances are now available in Europe (Spain) region
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in US West (N. California) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in US West (N. California) region
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon EC2 M7i and R7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7i and R7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Azure

Redmond asleep at the wheel this week.

Google Cloud

Well, it was Google Cloud Next this week so there was no shortage of new things to play with

Google Cloud Next 2025 Wrap Up | Google Cloud Blog
A whirlwind recap of Google Cloud Next ’25, including a synopsis of over 200 product, customer and ecosystem announcements.
Google Cloud

Of particular interest might the new h4d VM type for HPC workloads

New H4D VMs optimized for HPC | Google Cloud Blog
H4D VMs designed for tightly coupled HPC workloads with significant performance gains resulting in faster time to solutions.
Google Cloud

There’s also a c4d in preview using the latest AMD EPYC CPUs. Sign up here to get access

C4D Preview Sign-up Form
The purpose of Preview is to provide customers early access to GCE’s latest General Purpose C4D machine family for testing and providing feedback prior to GA. Preview capacity is available in us-central1, us-east4, us-east1, europe-west4 and asia-southeast1 regions and requires the customer’s projects to be allowlisted. For more details, access the user guide here. Through the preview period, we expect to work with preview customers and gather feedback on product performance. We are also looking for participation from our customers and partners to support our launch communications (e.g., providing a quote, permissions to use their logo etc.) - please reach out if interested. This form is to indicate that your customer is interested in participating in C4D Private Preview. We will contact you directly once you submit a response with more details. Disclaimers: Pre-GA offerings are not covered under the GCE Service Level Agreement. Customers should only use Preview for testing non-production workloads. There will be a higher frequency of disruptive VM live migrations. Customers should expect some volatility in performance and reliability during Preview. Pre-GA offerings: (1) are intended for use in test environments only and should not be used in a production environment or to process personal data or other data subject to legal or regulatory compliance requirements, and (2) are subject to the Pre-GA Offerings Terms of the Service Specific Terms. Information submitted via this form will be handled in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy.
Google Docs

There are also No shortage on the AI from either with new Ironwood TPUs for AI and updates to the still stupidly named AI Hypercomputer

What’s new with AI Hypercomputer? | Google Cloud Blog
Announcing new optimized hardware options, plus software and consumption model updates.
Google Cloud
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