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

HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Mar 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Azure gives us a new Blackwell powered VM and announces a lot of end-of-life dates. AWS makes it easier to share your capacity reservations.

AWS

You can now dedicate compute for HPC but still share it with other workloads (or between HPC workloads) when using capacity reservations

Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports interruptible Capacity Reservations - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports interruptible Capacity Reservations

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Enable CloudWatch across the whole organisations’ EC2 instances. Mind the bill

Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New Regional Instances: C8gn in Jakarta, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Zurich, M6in and M6idn (wow that’s old) now available in London, C8a in Tokyo.

Azure

New NCv6 VM family are now available in preview. Intel Xeon 6 CPUs with Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 (Blackwell) GPUs.

If you’re still using them, we need words! But the HBv2 will finally be retired on 31 May 2027. Yes in typical Microsoft fashion you have over a year to deal with this. Same goes for the HCrs but I can totally understand why you’d be using those still as they can be rather good on the price/performance scale, especially for non MPI workloads