Google Cloud customers will now be able to suspend their virtual machines (VMs) when not in use which will help lower their cloud spending.
The software giant’s cloud computing division has announced that its new Suspend/Resume feature for VMs is now generally available after launching in alpha several years ago.
The new feature works in a similar way to closing the lid of your laptop or putting your desktop PC to sleep. By suspending a Google Compute Engine VM, the the state of your instance will be saved to disk so that you can pick up later right where you left off.
