HPC Cloud Updates WE 18 Jan 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners Things are quieter this week after a small flurry of releases last week catching up with the holiday break.
AWS
The first EU sovereign cloud is now live. Just remember it’s still owned by, and subject to US laws as confirmed by another CSP executive so your data might not be quite as sovereign as you think even here
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud | Amazon Web Services
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to […]
Sébastien Stormacq
Azure
CFD on Azure is always fun right?
Scaling physics-based digital twins: Neural Concept on Azure delivers a New Record in Industrial AI | Microsoft Community Hub
Automotive Design and the DrivAerNet++ Benchmark
In automotive design, external aerodynamics have a direct impact on performance, energy efficiency, and…
lmiroslaw
Google Cloud
Google have come up with extensions to VMs to perform common actions such collect telemetry or monitor workloads. Could be interesting if you want to build a Google native extension to monitor your HPC workloads and possibly even feedback to the scheduler
Introducing VM Extensions Manager | Google Cloud Blog
The new VM Extensions Manager simplifies installing and managing Google-provided extensions when adopting new Google Cloud services.
