HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Jan 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
It’s a pretty quiet week really except perhaps for Google letting you rent single H100s now…
AWS
KSA gets an edge, an AWS flavoured one I mean
AWS announces new edge location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS announces new edge location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Limited to GovCloud, well you can use capacity reservations too now!
Amazon EC2 introduces provisioning control for On-Demand Capacity Reservations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 introduces provisioning control for On-Demand Capacity Reservations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
l7ie instances available in Frankfurt, London and Tokyo and I8g in Frankfurt
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon EC2 I8g instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 I8g instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
Azure
No HPC worthy news this week it seems.
Google Cloud
New VM instance types that let you spin machines with one, two or four (as well as the usual eight) H100 GPUs.
Smaller machine types for A3 High VMs with NVIDIA H100 GPUs | Google Cloud Blog
Compute Engine A3 High VMs are now available with NVIDIA H100 80GB GPUs in smaller machine types of 1, 2, and 4 GPUs, great for running AI inference.
