Preemptible Instances only can be used for a max of 24 hours, so would not fit the above usage pattern...though I don't know if AWS spot instances are really me

Preemptible Instances only can be used for a max of 24 hours, so would not fit the above usage pattern...though I don't know if AWS spot instances are really meant to be used for that long either. Of course both allow you to use the regular non-preemptible on-demand pricing. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible