Preemptible VMs
Preemptible VMs are VM instances that may be forcibly stopped at any time. This can occur in two cases:
- If 24 hours passed after the VM was started.
- If there are insufficient resources to launch a regular VM in the availability zone. Such an event is usually unlikely, but this may vary day to day.
Note
Preemptible VMs are only available for VMs on Intel Broadwell (with NVIDIA V100 GPUs) and Intel Cascade Lake (with and without NVIDIA V100 GPUs). See the full list of VM platforms.
You can create a preemptible VM or change the type of an existing one.
Limitations
In addition to the fact that preemptible VMs can be forcibly stopped, they have the following limitations:
- If there are not enough resources in the specified availability zone to launch a preemptible VM, it will not get launched.
Working with preemptible VMs
When a preemptible VM is stopped, it is not deleted and all its data is saved. When you need the VM again, you can just start it.