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It appears that GCP is rather late to the party here. I believe AWS has had spot instances for a very long time (more than 5 years at least) Is my understandi

It appears that GCP is rather late to the party here. I believe AWS has had spot instances for a very long time (more than 5 years at least) Is my understanding correct? and if so any insights on why it took so long

wmf 5y ago
GCP has had "preemptible" VMs for years; the only news is that they renamed them to "spot" to match AWS. I wonder if they were losing checkboxes over the naming.
- ernsheong 5y ago
  Not a rename. See my comment.
  - wmf 5y ago
    These changes are so minor that they don't count as a new product IMO.
ernsheong 5y ago
GCP has had Preemptible VMs, which WILL terminate after 24 hours if it lasted that long. Spot VMs removes this 24h limit.
- williamstein 5y ago
  They also changed the pricing model. Preempts had a completely predictable discount, and spot VM's have a variable discount.