HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Dec 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

AWS
New EC2 instance type for memory intensive workloads, u7inh
New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases | Amazon Web Services
Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.

Parallel Cluster 3.12 released
AWS ParallelCluster 3.12 now available with custom image build enhancements - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS ParallelCluster 3.12 now available with custom image build enhancements

and PCS upgrade to support SLURM 24.05
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm version 24.05 - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm version 24.05

u-6tb1 EC2 types now available in Osaka, g6 types available in Seoul and Paris
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region

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

Azure
Already on holiday in the HPC teams I think.
Google Cloud
Annual round up from Google Cloud
The top Google Cloud blogs of 2024 | Google Cloud Blog
2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud and readers of the Google Cloud blog; here were the best read stories.

That's all folks! See you next year.