Machine types

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• Machine types is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “Read Compute Engine virtual machine types.”
• Machine types works with Spot VMs From the official documentation: “When you use Spot VMs, to maximize the chances of obtaining the VMs and to minimize their preemptions, Google recommends that you include as many compatible machine types as possible within the same rank.”
• Flex-start VMs is an alternative to Spot VMs From the official documentation: “1. A cost and availability comparison of Flex-start VMs against Spot VMs for AI workloads.”
• Cloud TPU works with Compute Engine From the official documentation: “You can use TPUs through Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.”
• Flex-start VMs is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “You can't consume a reservation to create the following Compute Engine resources: - Flex-start VMs”
• G2 machine series is an alternative to G4 machine series From the official documentation: “We recommend migrating your workloads to modern GPU alternatives, specifically the **G4** or **G2** machine series.”
• Spot VMs is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “Spot VMs are virtual machine (VM) instances that are excess Compute Engine capacity.”
• Cloud TPU works with Spot VMs From the official documentation: “In this block, the `spot: true` setting enables Spot VMs for the Cloud TPU node pool.”
• Flex-start VMs works with G2 machine series From the official documentation: “To lower your costs, you can also create G2 and G4 Spot VMs, or you can create G2 Flex-start VMs.”
• G2 machine series is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “To transition your Compute Engine workloads to the recommended G2 (NVIDIA L4) or G4 (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000) machine series, you must move to a new compute instance.”
• G2 machine series works with Spot VMs From the official documentation: “To lower your costs, you can also create G2 and G4 Spot VMs, or you can create G2 Flex-start VMs.”
• G4 machine series is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “To transition your Compute Engine workloads to the recommended G2 (NVIDIA L4) or G4 (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000) machine series, you must move to a new compute instance.”
• G4 machine series works with Spot VMs From the official documentation: “To lower your costs, you can also create G2 and G4 Spot VMs, or you can create G2 Flex-start VMs.”
• GPU is part of Compute Engine From the official documentation: “Compute Engine offers the option of adding one or more GPUs to your virtual machine instances.”
• GPU works with Spot VMs From the official documentation: “You can also use GPUs with [Spot VMs](/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/spot-vms) if your workloads can tolerate frequent node disruptions.”