HPC Cloud Updates WE 25 Jan 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We get new RTX PRO 6000 VMs from AWS and whole new Google Cloud region this week.
AWS
New G7e instances with Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 GPUs and 5th gen Intel Xeon CPUs are now available
Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available
Need larger VMs that are EBS optimised, well now you can have them up to 48xlarge so long as they’re Graviton flavoured
Now available: 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized Amazon EC2 instances - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Now available: 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized Amazon EC2 instances
New regional instances: C8i in London, and in Sydney and Frankfurt alongside the flex version and C8gn in a few places including London and Ireland
Azure
Not much going on at Redmond for HPC this week
Google Cloud
New Region in Bangkok
Google Cloud Launches New Region in Bangkok, Thailand | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud’s new Bangkok region helps customers scale innovation with low-latency, local data residency, and PDPA compliance across Thailand.
