[punnerud]

Can others also buy the “best effort” tier?

If the job could easily run for weeks, even when you could buy your way for doing it in a day.

Then have a bidding on this “best effort” resource, where they factor in electricity at any given time

[curt15]

Is the "best effort" tier similar to AWS spot instances?

[WJW]

At every cloud provider there's probably a tier below "spot" (or whatever the equivalent is called at AWS's competitors) that is used for the low-priority jobs of the cloud provider itself.

[jeffbee]

You can speculate about this or you can look at how Google's internal workloads actually run, because they have released a large and detailed set of traces from Borg. They're really open about this.

https://github.com/google/cluster-data

[v3ss0n]

Sure,.land a job there, work the way all up against the cooperate bs and toxicity and you can get best effort tier.

Those effort needs to be added in the cost calculation too.

[v3ss0n]

Sure,.land a job there, work the way all up against the cooperate bs and toxicity and you can get best effort tier.

Those effort needs to be added in the cost calculation too