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Google's Spot Instances win big and you should too
- cuu508 10y agoI have not used GCE's preemptible instances. What I don't understand about them is–how can you use them for anything other than batch jobs? There is no guarantee that a critical portion of your instances will not be preempted at any moment.
- vgt 10y agoAuthor here, work at Google Cloud. These are ephemeral instances, so you should use them for workloads that can be easily interrupted, saved, resumed, and restarted elsewhere. - In the blog I mention that Dataproc, Google's Hadoop+Spark service, takes full advantage of Preemptible VMs, automatically restarting the job bits that go away. - Various HPC and media (rendering, transcoding) workloads are suitable here. - Some folks even write parts of their web-serving tiers. - This gentleman describes how they're leveraging 25,000 Preemptible Instances (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259575)