HPC Cloud Updates WE 18 May 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Meaningful update to AWS PCS, more fast disk and carbon optimisation from Azure and some Hypercomputer updates from Google.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 18 May 2025

Very quiet week, I guess anything that can wait for ISC at this point will be waiting for release in a few weeks time.

AWS

Parallel Computing Service just implemented something I always lament is missing from  out of the box solutions: The ability to see what’s running and consuming what. Sounds like a good update 

Introducing managed accounting for AWS Parallel Computing Service | Amazon Web Services
AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports accounting, a Slurm feature that enables you to monitor resource utilization, enforce resource limits, and manage access-control to specific capacity across users and projects in a cluster. AWS PCS manages the accounting database for the cluster, so that you don’t have to setup and manage a separate accounting database. In this post, we’ll show you how this works, and point you to some actual use cases you can try yourself.

Azure

Must be a first that I have more updates to report for Azure than AWS for this week!

Azure NetApp cross region and zone replication now available

Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Want to optmise your HPC workloads for carbon emissions? Now you can

Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Premium SSDs available in Japan West

Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud

Updates to their AI Hypercomputer toolkit

AI Hypercomputer enhancements for the developer | Google Cloud Blog
A recap of AI Hypercomputer enhancements that make developers more productive: interactive development, optimized training, and easier deployment.