QuestionQ18

VerifiedCompute and Storage

A company sells services to photographers that let patrons preview the photos for which they want prints. To prevent unauthorized copying, the sample photos are lower resolution and watermarked. The photos are processed after upload. The processing is fast but not instantaneous. It creates samples and sends them to storage outside the instances.

Which instance type is ideal for a short-lived process like this while keeping costs low?

Explanation

Preemptible instances offer substantially discounted compute for fault-tolerant batch workloads, but can be stopped when capacity is needed. Short-lived image processing whose outputs are stored externally can be retried after interruption, making it well suited to preemptible instances.

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