You should on GCE, but not on EC2: per-hour billing for EC2 means your 15 minute VM costs you 60 (aka 4x as much). We (sadly) have a 10 minute minimum, but the difference is pretty stark.<p>Once they got through some growing pains (rate limits per project), Travis CI has switched to a 1 VM per build model that they&#x27;ll probably detail in future blog posts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.travis-ci.com&#x2F;2016-04-07-migration-update" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.travis-ci.com&#x2F;2016-04-07-migration-update</a><p>Disclaimer: I work on GCE, so of course I want you to use it ;).