Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
a two-minute warning arrives and everything on that node has to drain, checkpoint and be gone before it is killed.
Spot interruption
Also calledpreemption, reclamation notice
The provider reclaiming spot capacity, preceded by a short notice. Handling it well is a workload property rather than a platform setting: the node must cordon and drain on the signal, and the workload must shut down cleanly within the window. It is also useful as a permanent, free chaos experiment, since a fleet that handles interruptions gracefully handles node failure gracefully too.