HPC Cloud Updates WE 20 Oct 2024

AWS

High memory  u6-tb instances are now available in Cape Town

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) region - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) region

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Ubuntu Pro on spot? I’m not sure why anyone would need this but you can do it now. Might have to ponder and write about this one at greater length.

Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Ubuntu Pro for EC2 Spot Instances

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

c7i instances available in Frankfurt and Seoul

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

and m7g and r7g in Paris, Milan and Hong Kong

Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

need more GPU? g6 instances with NVIDIA L4s are now available in Zurich, Stockholm, Mumbai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in additional regions - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in additional regions

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Running dedicated hosts in your estate. AWS can migrate them now

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now supports live migration-based host maintenance

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Definitely not HPC related… but AWS has found a way to stick AI even into its CLI…sigh.

AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Azure

Last week AWS gave use a tool to turn console commands into script. Azure is following suit

GitHub - Azure/aztfexport: A tool to bring existing Azure resources under Terraform’s management

A tool to bring existing Azure resources under Terraform’s management - Azure/aztfexport

GitHubAzure

You can finally use ED25519 keys on Linux on Azure

Generally Available: ED25519 SSH key support for Linux VMs

Generally Available: ED25519 SSH key support for Linux VMs

This should help your HPC observability. Azure VM Watch. Looks pretty nifty, I think I’ll try this out for our own HPC observability solution

Public Preview: VM watch for Azure VMs

Public Preview: VM watch for Azure VMs

Express Route Metro is now GA

Generally Available: ExpressRoute Metro

Generally Available: ExpressRoute Metro

Google Cloud

A little look to the future from Google

2024 OCP Global Summit keynote | Google Cloud Blog

Google leaders look ahead to how co-design and collaboration across the hardware-software stack are key to a new intelligence revolution.

Google Cloud