Question

A media studio runs nightly video-rendering batch jobs on Compute Engine. The jobs can be safely restarted if interrupted, and the studio wants to minimize compute costs for this fault-tolerant workload. Which Compute Engine option should they choose?

Accepted Answer

Spot VMs, which offer steep discounts for interruption-tolerant workloads

Answer

Sole-tenant nodes to isolate the rendering jobs on dedicated hardware

Answer

Committed use discounts on standard on-demand VMs running 24/7

Answer

Reserved external static IP addresses to speed up job scheduling