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Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals by discordance on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:08PM (#22418539)
Spot Instances have been around on Azure for a while. They were called Low Priority VMs previously but are now called Spot VMs [0].

0: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/spot/

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Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals by texasbigdata on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:13PM (#22418565)
It's interesting because the blog post is dated December 2019 and they are in "preview".

Cute strategy if they are indeed a rebrand.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-previe...

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