Preemptible Instances - Google Compute Engine
Preemptible Instances - Google Compute Engine
Use preemptible instances to control costs for workloads which are not sensitive to individual machine failures, such as batch jobs.
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Overview
A preemptible instance is a lower-cost Google Compute Engine virtual machine. For example (as of March 1, 2017), a single CPU machine costs $0.05/hour but a the same machine costs $0.01/hour as a preemptible instance. This lower costs comes with some caveats:
- Preemptible Instances run for a maximum of 24 hours.
- Preemptible Instances may be “preempted” (shutdown) by Google at any time. You get about 30 seconds to run a shutdown script.
- Preemptible Instances may not be available if Compute Engine does not have excess capacity.
Examples
- Google doubled the capacity of the global CMS Experiment computing resources for the week of the SC16 Supercomputing Conference using preemptible VMs. See blog post.