HPC Cloud Updates WE 30 Mar 2025

AWS

This blog on using predictive techniques to spin up and manage on demand and spot instances looks quite interesting (if possibly a bit advertorial in nature). The capability is definitely exciting but unfortunately there’s little detail as to how it works.

Petrobras optimizes cost and capacity of HPC applications with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances | Amazon Web Services

Discover how Petrobras and Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro — Brazil) developed an innovative HPC solution on AWS, leveraging Spot Instances to optimize costs. Explore the automations in place to avoid interruptions and use the lowest-cost instances available.

Amazon Web Services

I know I’ve found this data hard to find in the past so having geographical information for AWS regions and zones sounds like a good plan to me

Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available | Amazon Web Services

AWS is expanding its global infrastructure, now providing increased transparency about the specific geographic locations of its 114 Availability Zones across 36 regions to help customers meet regulatory requirements and make informed deployment decisions.

Amazon Web Services

This sounds like good news for those of us running multi region

Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 now supports more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

New instance: c8g in Tokyo, r8g in California, p5en in Virginia and Jakarta

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS US West (N. California) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS US West (N. California)

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon EC2 P5en instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 P5en instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Azure

Using Open On Demand? Now it integrates with Cycle Cloud on Azure

Open OnDemand Integration with Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm

We are thrilled to announce the preview of Open OnDemand integration with Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm.

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Google Cloud

Nothing HPC to report.