&gt; There might be people avoiding the product because they &quot;need&quot; more time, but honestly most of those use cases aren&#x27;t really prepared for preemption and should probably stick with a different solution.<p>I really have to say it, and I&#x27;m sorry to say so, but its things like this that keep people on AWS. Google Compute still has the feel of an experiment versus a business, and you don&#x27;t want your critical infrastructure on someone&#x27;s experiment.<p>2 minutes is provided by AWS to give you time to checkpoint your process(es), get logs off the box, and to remove from an ELB if its attached to one. Doesn&#x27;t matter if you get a new VM for me spun up fast if I can&#x27;t finish up housekeeping on the ones being terminated.