Thanks for the feedback. We explained the reasoning behind 30 seconds vs "longer" in the InfoQ interview I mentioned in a different thread. But basically if y

Thanks for the feedback. We explained the reasoning behind 30 seconds vs "longer" in the InfoQ interview I mentioned in a different thread. But basically if you're getting preempted it's often because some regular VM is trying to land on the box and needs to be kicked off. Our goal here is to make sure we don't impact even our 95th-percentile VM creation time for regular VMs. We create and boot VMs so much faster (I think even p90 is 36s right now) that "2 minutes" is more than it sounds like. Finally, one of the things we tracked carefully during Beta is how quickly people actually shut down. Median on Linux was something like 5 seconds. Even the 90th percentile was something like 10 or 15 seconds. There might be people avoiding the product because they "need" more time, but honestly most of those use cases aren't really prepared for preemption and should probably stick with a different solution.