GCE fares a little better than this: - VMs with SSDs can (in general -- there are exceptions for things like GPUs and exceptionally large instances) live migra

GCE fares a little better than this: - VMs with SSDs can (in general -- there are exceptions for things like GPUs and exceptionally large instances) live migrate with contents preserved. - GCE supports a timeboxed "restart in place" feature where the VM stays in limbo ("REPAIRING") for some amount of time waiting for the host to return to service: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/host-maintenance-overview#local-ssd-timeout https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/host-mainten.... This mostly only applies to transient failures like power-loss beyond battery/generator sustaining thresholds, software crashes, etc. - There is a related feature, also controlled by the `--discard-local-ssd=` flag, which allows preservation of local SSD data on a customer initiated VM stop.