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Do you get refunded if you get preempted?

• boulos 10y ago
  You do if you get shot in the first 10 minutes. Otherwise, no. We happen to preferentially "shoot the young" to minimize work lost: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible#preemption_selection https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible#...
  • zaroth 10y ago
    Oh I can see the headlines now...
    • boulos 10y ago
      Yeah, nobody likes that I phrase it this way ;).
• tomschlick 10y ago
  Google cloud uses per minute billing IIRC so I'd assume you just don't pay any more after preempted.