Preemptible VMs are the ones we use for a shorter time span, ranging from a few minutes to 24 hours. They are typically used for fault-tolerant applications, such as media transcoding or building a Hadoop cluster.
You can start a preemptible VM using the following command in the CLI:
// ENABLE PREEMPTIBLE OPTIONgcloud compute instances create my-vm --zone us-central1-b --preemptible
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