Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances Launch in Singapore with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs for HPC

AWS expanded its HPC offerings to Asia Pacific (Singapore) with Hpc8a instances featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, boosting performance for compute- and memory-intensive workloads.

By Sofia Reed · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-10-05 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-10-05. Source published: 2026-10-05. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

The Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instance type was released in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region, powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC 'Turin' processors running at up to 4.5GHz. Compared to previous Hpc7a instances, Hpc8a delivers about 40% greater compute performance and 42% more memory bandwidth, optimizing price-performance for HPC applications.

These instances leverage sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards to support tightly coupled, latency-sensitive workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, and multiphysics simulations requiring fast inter-node communication. They provide customers in the region with advanced infrastructure for scientific and engineering computations.

Source & further reading

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) ↗

Source published 2026-10-05. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.