HPC Cloud Updates WE 16 Mar 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Try before you buy HPC, AWS Batch with multiple containers. Yes have those in here.

AWS
I didn’t even know its possible to do this, so was quite an interesting read. Running multiple containers as part of your AWS Batch

Want to monitor which AMIs your HPC clusters start with? You can do it using AWS Config too now using Allowed AMIs underneath. I hate to admit it… but I’m started to pronounce that ‘amee’ now. This is all Brendan’s fault!

New EC2 instance types: i8g.48xlarge in US East & West, r7 in Osaka, g6e in Seoul


Azure
Try before you buy? In HPC? Ok I admit this sounds nice, but at least in the FSI space, or really I guess anyone that runs custom code how this would work?
Google Cloud
Nothing to see here folks.