Agreed. On our 8 vcpu and higher instances, you can do ~16 Gbps. Even on AWS you can do upwards of 10 Gbps. So worst case scenario, you stream a ton of data at

Agreed. On our 8 vcpu and higher instances, you can do ~16 Gbps. Even on AWS you can do upwards of 10 Gbps. So worst case scenario, you stream a ton of data at a recovery box. More likely, you just checkpoint along the way and save to PD / EBS (and then reattach the disk post preemption) or even do ~X Gbps to GCS / S3 and pickup whenever with a fresh VM. Disclaimer: I work on Preemptible VMs at Google.