HPC Cloud Updates WE 23 Feb 2025 & WE 16 Feb 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. GB200s from Google, Dv6 from Azure and more.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 23 Feb 2025 & WE 16 Feb 2025

The sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed there were no release notes last week. Apologies. This update covers everything for past two weeks.

AWS

Manage your AWS Batch resources using Terraform

Using the Terraform AWS Cloud Control provider for managing AWS Batch resources | Amazon Web Services
The Terraform AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider now supports AWS Batch job definitions, enabling you to leverage recent and future enhancements to AWS Batch. Learn more in our latest blog post.

EC2 Capacity Blocks are available in more regions, including US East and West, Stocholm, London, Tokyo anf Mumbai for p5 types

Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions

Upgrade the version of Lustre used with Amazon FSx

Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades

New instance types this week: g6e in Stockholm, r6a in Canada, c7g in Zurich, c6in in Chicago and New York, m7g in Jakarta, Melbourne and Osaka, m8g in London

Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Stockholm region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Stockholm region
Amazon EC2 R6a instances now available in Canada (Central) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 R6a instances now available in Canada (Central)
Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in instances in Chicago and New York City Local Zones - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in instances in Chicago and New York City Local Zones
Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in additional regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (London) - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Europe (London)

Azure

Ever heard of WekaFS? I hadn’t either but here’s a handy guide on how to use it with Cycle Cloud to power your HPC 

Using Azure CycleCloud with Weka | Microsoft Community Hub
What is Azure CycleCloud?   Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing HPC environments on Azure. With Azure…

Microsoft will be at NVIDIA GTC, handy guide to their sessions and talks here

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurehighperformancecomputingblog/innovation-starts-here-join-microsoft-at-nvidia-gtc/4372488

Dv6 and Ev6 are now Generally Available. Time to point COREx at them then!

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Google Cloud

GB200s now available in new a4x VMs alongside NVIDIA Grace ARM CPUs

New A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 GPUs | Google Cloud Blog
New A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 NLV72 address the compute and memory demands of AI reasoning models that use chain-of-thought.