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There are discounts if your instances can be pre-empted: https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/ https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/. The pricing isn't

by wsh91 10y ago

There are discounts if your instances can be pre-empted: https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/ https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/. The pricing isn't variable like EC2 spot instances, however.

vgt 10y ago
Time for me to shamelessly plug my TL;DR blog on Google's Preemptible VMs: https://medium.com/@thetinot/google-clouds-spot-instances-win-big-and-you-should-too-5b244ca3facf https://medium.com/@thetinot/google-clouds-spot-instances-wi...
candiodari 10y ago
From the site: > You cannot attach GPUs to preemptible instances. GPUs do not receive sustained use discounts. So sorry, no.
- wsh91 10y ago
  The question didn't even mention GPUs, and there's no reason that what you mention can't change in the future. It was a pointer.