HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Jun 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. New AMD Turin VM from Google, Lots of VM instances available in new places on AWS and Cycle Cloud plays with NeMo.
AWS
A small but potentially handy optimization to the way EC2 auto scaling works, now removing the instance details in the response (if requested) to reduce the response size
Savings plans now available for p5 and p5en types
New Instances: r7g in Melbourne, c7i and c7i-flex in Zurich and Hong Kong, m7i and m7i-flex in Hong Kong, c8g in Central Canada and Malaysia, c7gd in Osaka, Jakarta and Sao Paolo, m8g in Sao Paolo, m7g in Cape Town and Hong Kong, m7i-flex.12|16xlarge in London, r7g in Melbourne
Azure
RHEL based Azure images for HPC
Hugo_Meiland
AI training with Cycle Cloud and NVIDIA NeMo Run
egmsft
SSD v2 ultra disks available in Malaysia
DCsv2 to end of life in June 2026
Google Cloud
New c4d VM family powered by 5th gen AMD Turin CPUs is GA. We’ve been benchmarking the top of stack Turin CPU recently, so I guess its only fair we see how the Google VM offerings compare. Keep an eye out for this.
