Google Cloud launches preemptible GPUs with a 50% discount

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs.Like Google’s preemptible VMs (and AWS’s comparable spot instances), these GPUs come at a significant discount — in this case, 50 percent.Google will only charge you preemptible VM prices for these, but you don’t have to worry about Google shutting down your VM before your GPU workload is done (or before you get your 30-second warning for the GPU shutdown).Google’s move today comes only a few months after the company already significantly dropped its prices for non-preemptible GPUs.In addition to this new pricing scheme, Google today noted that GPUs are now available in its cloud’s US-central1 region.

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