A media company needs to run large video-transcoding jobs every night. The workload is stateless, can tolerate occasional interruptions, and the team's primary goal is to keep compute costs as low as possible. Which Compute Engine option best fits these requirements?
Launch the batch jobs on preemptible VM instances.
Attach GPUs to on-demand VM instances for faster processing.
Run the jobs on sole-tenant nodes to avoid noisy neighbors.
Purchase three-year committed use discounts for standard VM instances.
Preemptible VM instances are much cheaper-often up to 80% less expensive than standard on-demand VMs-because Google Cloud can shut them down at any time (and will always stop them after 24 hours). They are therefore well suited to fault-tolerant, batch-style workloads such as nightly video transcoding. Sole-tenant nodes target compliance and isolation, GPUs raise rather than lower cost, and committed use discounts still require paying for continuously running standard instances, none of which align as closely with the stated cost and interruption tolerance needs.
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