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You're always welcome to come try Preemptible VMs (https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/) so that bidding isn't what kicks you out. Massive regional failure could absolutely still stock out any spare capacity product, but it seems doubly worse to get charged extra for it.

Disclosure: I work on Preemptible VMs at Google.

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EC2 spot blocks already provide support for keeping spot instances for a specified period of time.

The price of spot blocks still varies (so in this case, trying to create new ones would likely have been very expensive), are limited to 1-6 hours, and have a substantially smaller discount. When you add the hourly billing vs per-minute, it's very rare that spot blocks comes out ahead. Don't get me wrong, if you're on AWS and know your duration, use them!

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