HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Jul 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. GB200s on AWS, PCS comes to London, Azure gets secure boot on VMSS, Google London Summit recap
AWS
A fancy cron job to move your data off Lustre and into S3 to save money? Why not I guess
Optimize your CAE/CFD workloads with Amazon FSx for Lustre Data Repository Association | Amazon Web Services
HPC customers in automotive and manufacturing love Amazon FSx for Lustre because it combines a managed, easy-to-use service with the power of a high throughput parallel file system. Moreover, FSx for Lustre has a native integration with Amazon S3, our object storage service that is designed for durability and low cost. You can link your […]
NVIDIA GB200 Blackwell GPUs come to AWS. With a weird name for some reason
New Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for the highest AI performance | Amazon Web Services
Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers, powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 superchips that enable up to 72 GPUs with 360 petaflops of computing power for AI training and inference at the trillion-parameter scale.
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PCS finally comes to London
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region
New Instances: c8g, m8g and r8g in Singapore
Azure
Secure boot as the default goes into public preview
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
and you can enable it on VM Scale Sets (both Flex and Uniform)
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
Google Cloud
Roundup from London Summit
Powering the UK’s AI future: News from Google Cloud Summit London | Google Cloud Blog
AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030. This year’s summit reaffirms Google’s long-term commitment to helping the UK realise its potential.
A few new storage optimised VMs
Expanded Z3 VM portfolio for I/O intensive workloads | Google Cloud Blog
With up to 36 TiB local SSD, and 72 TiB for bare metal, Z3 VMs run I/O-intensive workloads that require large local storage capacity and high storage performance.
