Reply to post: Re: "And which Google can shut down at any moment of its choosing."

Re: "And which Google can shut down at any moment of its choosing."

"Why would anyone want to rent a VM that could disappear at any moment"

That is a quite common product offering -- AWS has spot instances with the same feature and they are very useful for adding capacity to stateless services -- think for example of massive data transformations in big data, or large arrays of web site gateways.