I have to say that PDs attached read-only to multiple VMs is a <i>very</i> important part of my pipelines. And also a distinguishing feature of GCE.<p>Clound Dataflow on the other hand is difficult to use in practice - one of the main reasons is the large footprint of intermediate files (sometimes 10x the size of the input)<p>Currently we are running monolithic pipelines on the cloud where one instance does the job from start to finish (if it get&#x27;s preempted - I restart). I plan the next version to be in some way &quot;split-apart&quot; but have not found a good strategy&#x2F;tooling - any advice?