是否可以在 Spot 机器上运行 Vertex AI Workbench？

Question

I'm trying to save budget on jupyter notebooks on Google Cloud but couldn't find a way to run Vertex AI Workbench (Notebooks) on spot machines. What are my alternatives?

Answer 1

The short answer is no ; the better answer is: you have an alternative .

Vertex AI Workbench is indeed a managed service with Compute Engine VM as the underlying infrastructure. However it doesn't support Spot/Preemptible instances.

Instead you can quickly install a deep/machine learning image on a VM using a Google's images. See this detailed tutorial .

Deep Learning VMs don't support launching from the GCP Console and more features like co-coding. But it does support Spot/Preemptible instances and doesn't introduce a management fee. So you get lesser experience but also pay less.