The document discusses high performance computing (HPC) on AWS. It begins with an agenda that includes HPC concepts, patterns and practices as well as a demo of CloudFormation Cluster (cfncluster). It then discusses using elastic AWS instance clusters that are neither too large nor too small for jobs. The document covers various pricing models on AWS including on-demand, reserved, spot and dedicated instances. It also discusses AWS services that can be used for HPC workloads like EC2, auto scaling, monitoring with CloudWatch, GPU computing, middleware services and integrated solutions. Finally, popular HPC workloads on AWS are listed in various industries.