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I'm a big fan of preemptible instances on GCP. They're much easier to set up than AWS spot instances, all you need to do is set `preemptible = true` and bam you
by toomanybeersies 5y ago
I'm a big fan of preemptible instances on GCP. They're much easier to set up than AWS spot instances, all you need to do is set `preemptible = true` and bam you've saved 80% on compute costs. The consistent pricing is also very convenient.
At my old job we ran out CI infra on preemptible instances. It cost basically nothing to run, and because the instances were cycled frequently due to scaling, we hardly ever had jobs fail because of an instance being terminated mid-run (not that it was a problem when they did, they'd just automatically get re-run).