HPC Cloud Updates WE 30 Jun 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners
AWS
A new HPC blog post from AWS on how to use Batch and Lambda with QuantLib for financial analytics
Harnessing the scale of AWS for financial simulations | Amazon Web Services
Struggling with long compute times for numerical simulations in finance? See how AWS makes it simple to leverage the cloud for large-scale financial modeling. We walk through a real example using QuantLib and Monte Carlo methods.
Another HPC blog post with a some best practices for HPC on AWS
A library of HPC Applications Best Practices on AWS | Amazon Web Services
Want insights on running HPC codes efficiently on AWS? Our HPC specialists compiled their know-how into a new public GitHub repo. Get best practices, templates, scripts and more to optimize your workloads.
Guard Duty available for Debian and Ubuntu on EC2
Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian OS - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian OS
c6a instance types available in more regions
Amazon EC2 C6a instances now available in additional regions - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C6a instances now available in additional regions
Azure
Updates site still down...
- ED25519 keys now supported on Linux
- Resiliency improvements for ExpressRoute in public preview
Week of June 27, 2024: Azure Updates
Week of June 27, 2024: Azure Updates
GCP
Nothing HPC specific from Google this week but platform engineering seems to be a hot topic these days and they do have something to say about that:
Common myths about platform engineering | Google Cloud Blog
We present five common myths about platform engineering — what it is and what it isn’t — that we’ve heard when folks aren’t considering the whole picture.
Another five myths about platform engineering | Google Cloud Blog
Part two of a series on platform engineering myths, covering how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t do.
