A 60-91% discount for accepting 30 seconds' notice.
A sound trade only when the workload's own design already tolerates losing an instance.
TemplateOne instance definition
Standard MIG floorReliable baseline, min 8
Spot MIG overflowElastic, absorbs peaks
Health checkAuto-recreates unhealthy instances
A weather event spiked traffic; Spot instances were preempted mid-surge 40 minutes later. Because GPS workers only hold an in-flight message for the duration of processing it, Pub/Sub's redelivery absorbed the loss as a blip — not data loss.