By Hamza in HPC Cloud Release Notes — Feb 22, 2026

HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Feb 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS Gives us a new HPC specific AMD powered VM type and the ability to run nested virtualisation (but not on AMD). Azure and Nvidia get even cosier.

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New AMD Powered HPC8c VM types

Announcing new high performance computing Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances - AWS

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Nested Virtualisation Support now available on EC2. This is pretty cool not only for things like build and test pipelines but also if you want to run virtualised (including certain types of containerised) HPC workloads. Looks like its limited to 8^th gen Intel VM types (C8i, M8i and R8i) only for now though.

Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances

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New Regional Instances: G7e in Tokyo, M8i-flex in a lot of places, R8i and flex in Ireland, C8a in Frankfurt and Ireland