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Have you tried GCP's Preemptible VMs? They are like Spot but without the bidding. If you have, what do you like better about Spot? https://cloud.google.com/pre
by thesandlord 9y ago
Have you tried GCP's Preemptible VMs? They are like Spot but without the bidding. If you have, what do you like better about Spot?
https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/ https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/
(I work for GCP)
- rpedela 9y agoFYI you no longer have to bid for AWS spot. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlined-access-to-spot-capacity-smooth-price-changes-instance-hibernation/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlin...
- thesandlord 9y agoOh good to know! Looks like a similar model to GCE.
- tedivm 9y agoSince you work for GCP can you give us any insight into whether google will be offering any of the Volta line of GPUs?
- OkGoDoIt 9y agoThanks for the head’s up, I had not heard of that. Then again GCP is not an option for me until they support Windows and C#.
- 5ersi 9y agoGoogle Compute Engine are virtual machines so you can put any OS on them. In fact they have preconfigured Windows instances: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-windows https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-windows
- OkGoDoIt 9y agoThanks, this is news to me. But then again I haven’t looked at Google cloud platform in years. I guess I should check it out again and see how it’s evolved.
- thesandlord 9y agoHere is the C# support: https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/ https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/