By Hamza in HPC Cloud Release Notes — Apr 26, 2026

HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. PCS supports Slurm 25.11, Azure gives you NetApp ransomware scanning and Google Cloud Next Updates.

AWS

Sagemaker optimises your Slurm topology automatically now

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports automatic Slurm topology management - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports automatic Slurm topology management

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

PCS Support for Slurm 25.11

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm 25.11 - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm 25.11

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Relying on AWS Compute Optimizer to do the heavy work figuring out if you’re using the right kind of EC2 instance? It now supports a lot ore instance types… but I have an even better answer for you

AWS Compute Optimizer supports 162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Compute Optimizer supports 162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

This sounds really promising but I do wonder how effective it is in reality.

Amazon SageMaker AI launches optimized generative AI inference recommendations - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon SageMaker AI launches optimized generative AI inference recommendations

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New Regional Instances: C8i-flex now in Ireland, London and New Zealand, C8i in Ireland and New Zealand, G7e in Los Angeles