HPC Cloud Updates WE 14 Dec 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. As expected fairly quiet this week
AWS
New C8gb instances (Elastic Block Storage optimised) now GA and available in Oregon and N. Virginia
Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances
New Regional Instances: c7i in Hyderabad, C8gn in Ohio and UAE.
Azure
Azure Managed Prometheus now available (well in Private Preview) for VM and VMSS
Private Preview: Azure Managed Prometheus on VM / VMSS | Microsoft Community Hub
Announcing private preview support for Azure Managed Prometheus on VM/VMSS, enabling unified monitoring with GPU, InfiniBand, and node-level metrics for HPC…
Google Cloud
Having trouble fine tuning your models due to memory constraints, this is quite a good guide
Decoding high-bandwidth memory: A practical guide to GPU memory for fine-tuning AI models | Google Cloud Blog



