What's even better, you can use preemptible instances in GCE which are a rough equivalent to Spot instances in Amazon, but have fixed pricing (no bidding nightm

What's even better, you can use preemptible instances in GCE which are a rough equivalent to Spot instances in Amazon, but have fixed pricing (no bidding nightmare). They can live up to 24 hours, but can be shut down earlier, so your processing pipeline should be able to handle it. But with up to 70% lower prices and the same per-minute billing it's a steal! Keep in mind that GCE has 10 minute minimum, so if you run an instance for less than 10 minutes, you'll be charged for 10 minutes, but after that billing is per-minute.