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AWS PCS Adds Slurm REST API for Programmatic Job Control

🔁 The AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports the Slurm REST API, enabling programmatic job submission, resource management, and cluster monitoring over HTTP. This removes reliance on CLI-only workflows and lets teams integrate HPC operations into web portals, CI/CD pipelines, and data processing frameworks. The feature is available in all AWS Regions with AWS PCS and has no additional charge.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

🔒 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is now HIPAA eligible, enabling organizations with a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) to run protected health data workloads. AWS PCS is a managed High Performance Computing service that uses the Slurm workload manager for cluster orchestration and targets compute-intensive tasks such as genomic sequencing, medical imaging analysis, and clinical research simulations. AWS says it maintains a standards-based risk management program to support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and that eligibility applies in all AWS Regions where PCS is offered.

AWS PCS Expands Slurm Configuration with 60+ Settings

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports over 60 additional Slurm configuration parameters, giving administrators finer control of job scheduling, resource allocation, access permissions, and job lifecycle behavior. New options include queue-specific priority policies, preemption rules, custom time and resource limits, and account-level access controls. Per-job execution behaviors and QoS tuning help run multi-team production HPC environments more efficiently. The expanded settings are available in all AWS PCS regions.

AWS PCS Adds Slurm Node Reboot, Available in All Regions

🔁 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports rebooting compute nodes using Slurm commands without triggering instance replacement. You can use the scontrol reboot command with options for immediate or deferred reboots to troubleshoot, perform resource cleanup, or recover from degraded states. This capability is available in all PCS-supported AWS Regions and helps teams maintain cluster health more efficiently while reducing costs associated with unnecessary instance replacements.

AWS PCS Supports EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

🔧 Amazon Web Services has added native support for EC2 Capacity Blocks in the Parallel Computing Service (PCS), enabling use of reserved EC2 instances directly within PCS Slurm clusters. This integration lets Capacity Blocks be associated with PCS compute node groups via an EC2 Launch Template, simplifying capacity planning for GPU‑based ML workloads. The feature is available in all Regions where both services are offered and aims to improve availability and predictability for cutting‑edge GPU jobs.