Optimizing undersea cables: how Orsted and AWS modeled seabed thermal properties

This post was contributed by Ross Pivovar, Rafał Ołdziejewski, Cindy Xin Qi Lee Offshore wind farms play a critical role in the global transition to renewable energy and clean power generation. But generating electricity is only half the …

October was busy for HPC in the cloud

It’s been a busy month in the world of HPC on AWS: we’ve seen new data sets, refinements to cluster operations, and deeper thinking about how workloads map to infrastructure. For our customers driving R&D with HPC, those changes matter …

What’s the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service?

It’s been a year since we announced AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). In a way this is the third generation of Slurm-based HPC orchestrators that we’ve brought to you. We’ve learned much from helping customers deploy serious production …

What's been happening under the hood in Research and Engineering Studio

Wondered what’s really going on under the hood of Research and Engineering Studio in AWS (RES)?

This episode of Tech Shorts pulls back the curtain with Matt Vaughn, diving deep into why RES was built and how it’s quietly transforming how …

A scientific approach to workload-aware computing on AWS

HPC workloads demonstrate predictable resource patterns that can directly determine optimal cloud instance selection. To save you conducting extensive custom benchmarking, this blog post presents a data-driven methodology for instance …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing …

Slurm Accounting in PCS gives your scheduler a memory

In this Tech Shorts episode, Matt Vaughn returns to dive into the power of Slurm accounting in AWS PCS

Why it matters, how it gives clusters “memory” of past workloads, and how that transforms scheduling, efficiency, and user fairness.

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Dataset of protein-ligand complexes now available in the Registry of Open Data on AWS

This post was contributed by U. Deva Priyakumar, Rakesh Srivatsava, Prathit Chatterjee, Vladimir Aladinskiy, Ramanathan Sethuraman, Yusong Wang, Alex Iankoulski, and Beryl Rabindran Today, we’re excited to announce the release of a …