HPC Cloud Updates WE 16 Jun 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

AWS
New AWS region coming to Taiwan by 2025
In the Works – AWS Region in Taiwan | Amazon Web Services
Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and will give AWS customers in Taiwan the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in Taiwan. Each of the Availability […]

Mumbai has m6in and m6idn instance types available now
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

Azure
Still no updates from Azure. I’m beginning to wonder if the Azure updates site isn’t in fact broken!
GCP
Google announce a partnership with Oracle
Accelerating Cloud Transformation with Google Cloud and Oracle | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud and Oracle Partner to accelerate cloud transformation with Oracle Database@Google Cloud.

Slurm-GCP v6 released
Slurm-GCP v6 is now GA | Google Cloud Blog
Slurm-GCP v6 helps automate the installation, deployment, and running Slurm, simplifying HPC workload management on Google Cloud.
