Google's Spot Instances win big and you should too

These are ephemeral instances, so you should use them for workloads that can be easily interrupted, saved, resumed, and restarted elsewhere.

- In the blog I mention that Dataproc, Google's Hadoop+Spark service, takes full advantage of Preemptible VMs, automatically restarting the job bits that go away.

- Various HPC and media (rendering, transcoding) workloads are suitable here.

- Some folks even write parts of their web-serving tiers.

- This gentleman describes how they're leveraging 25,000 Preemptible Instances (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259575)