HPC Cloud Updates WE 17 Nov 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

AWS
Handy guide on using CloudInstanceOptimizer to optmise your AWS workloads

NVIDIA L4 GPUs now available in GovCloud US West in the form of EC2 G6 instances

Upto 1 million S3 buckets per account. Might help with somewhere to dump all those results 😆

EC2 capacity blocks to reserve GPUs now available in Oregon and Tokyo

Azure
I think the biggest update is that the new Azure Updates site seems to finally have been released! Sadly they still haven’t given us a filter for all things HPC option. IoT, sure. Networking, you’re golden. HPC? Go Fish.
Want to see if the new Intel SKUs are any good for your FSI workload? Dr Darko’s got you covered
Google Cloud
Google seem to be getting out ahead of SC24 with this announcement

They’ve also launched a community initiative to drive HPC

IBM Cloud
IBM provide a VPC Private Path for secure connectivity to their cloud
