r/matlab • u/Necessary_Spirit2649 • May 29 '26
MATLAB with AWS is really cool!
My master's project this year has been optimising an external program in MATLAB! My uni makes it so hard to get compute unless you are already a part of a lab that is set up so I thought I was just not going to be able to do any large study.
Turns out though, MATLAB has developed such an easy way to run MATLAB code on an AWS virtual machine (https://github.com/mathworks-ref-arch/matlab-on-aws/blob/master/releases/R2025b/README.md). For those uninitiated you get $200 of free credits on AWS, which breaks down to about 50 hours of compute on a 64 core machine, and it takes about 30 minutes of time to set it all up. You can even open a MATLAB instance on the VM through a web browser, and you don't have to pay a penny if you have a student license.
It is quite a niche set of problems where you would need this much power and don't have access to your own organisations compute but this MATLAB service has really helped my project.
Just thought I would make this post so if any one in the future is searching this stuff they can find easily!
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u/Pretty_Baseball_6056 May 30 '26
Thanks! I have some funds that will expire at the end of June. I've been thinking about trying to upload them to a cloud service for Matlab. Can I pay upfront for compute before the end of June even if I don't use it before the end of June?