HPC Cloud Updates WE 23 Mar 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Lots of GPUs from Azure and Google but little else.
AWS
Not a whole lot going on and I think this must the first time in a over a year of producing this that I’ve seen that for AWS. We do have a bunch of new instance types available in more places though.
c7g in Calgary, m7gd in UAE, c7i-flex and m7i-flex in Thailand and Mexico, m7g in Tel Aviv
Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in Middle East (UAE) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Azure
Microsoft has a bunch, 4,000 to be more precise, NVIDIA GB200s all clustered up and ready to go and they even have some performance data
Accelerating the Intelligence Age with Azure AI Infrastructure and the GA of ND GB200 v6 | Microsoft Community Hub
Today we are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure’s latest AI infrastructure Virtual Machines, the ND GB200 v6.
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Unpacking the Performance of Microsoft Azure ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines
As AI workloads continue to push the boundaries of computing, the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip stands at the forefront of high-performance…
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And now you can now hibernate your GPU SKUs too
Hibernation is now Generally Available on GPU VMs! | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, we’re excited to announce that hibernation for Azure GPU VMs is now generally available. We announced the extension of hibernation support to GPU…
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Google Cloud
The new A4 VM family is now GA and there’s a A4X with B200s in preview
Google Cloud goes to NVIDIA GTC | Google Cloud Blog
At NVIDIA’s GTC AI Conference, we announced that A4 VMs based on B200 are generally available, and that A4X VMs based on GB200 NVL72 are in preview.
