HPC Cloud Updates WE 20 Apr 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Quiet week but there is a new region in Azure and AWS gives it take on cloud for HPC in financial services.
AWS
AWS gives its take on the adoption of cloud for HPC in Financial Services. It’s a little leading but then I guess that’s to be expected. It’s good though perhaps nothing revelatory or new
Characteristics of financial services HPC workloads in the cloud | Amazon Web Services
This blog post will explore the technical attributes of computationally demanding high performance computing (HPC) workloads within the financial services sector. By examining the key characteristics of your workloads, we will guide you through a decision tree approach to help determine the most suitable HPC platform for the cloud - whether it be a commercial vendor solution, open-source option, or a fully cloud-native implementation.
New Instances: c8g in London, Sydney, N. California and Sao Paolo, m8g in Tokyo and Sydney, i7ie in Ireland, m7i-flex in Melbourne
Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional AWS regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Azure
New region in Indonesia now GA
Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
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Google Cloud
I think everything was announced last week, so nothing much to report here.
