Interrupted VMs are acceptable if the price is much lower. What do you choose?
Why B is the answer
Spot VMs
Spot VMs cost much less, and the trade-off is that they can be interrupted.
In detail
- Spot VMs trade interruption for a much lower price.
- Use standard VMs for steady work.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A test environment accepts interruptions in return for lower prices, so it runs on Spot VMs.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD
A{"Workload"} -->|"Short event handler"| B["Cloud Run functions"]
A -->|"Stateless container"| C["Cloud Run"]
A -->|"Complex container platform"| D["GKE"]
A -->|"Full VM control"| E["Compute Engine"]mindmap
root((Compute))
Cloud Run
Stateless containers
GKE
Kubernetes control
Compute Engine
Custom machine types
Spot VMs
VMware Engine
Existing VMwareflowchart TD
Q{"Is interruption acceptable?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Spot VMs"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Standard VMs"]Key point: Accept volatility for a lower price.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A custom Shared VPC
- That is networking.
- C. Reserved dedicated hosts
- Dedicated hosts cost more.
- D. Larger standard VMs
- Larger VMs cost more.