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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by pushrax on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:52AM (#28848997)
The reality at scale is that all cloud VMs are preemptible and unreliable. You can pay more to increase the probability of uptime but inevitably have to recover from failure sometimes.
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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:37AM (#28850933)
The reality is itselt preemptible and unreliable, you could be terminated without notice
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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by junon on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:51AM (#28849809)
This is absolutely the correct way of thinking about this problem, and exactly how most people I've seen successfully use pre-empt instances treat them as well.
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