Yes you can start a VM back up via gcloud: gcloud compute instances start instance-name Note of course that if you got preempted because we needed the capa

Yes you can start a VM back up via gcloud: gcloud compute instances start instance-name Note of course that if you got preempted because we needed the capacity back for regular VMs (as opposed to say a maintenance event) you may not be able to start a new Preemptible VM in that zone.