Author here, work at Google Cloud. These are ephemeral instances, so you should use them for workloads that can be easily interrupted, saved, resumed, and rest

Author 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)