Preview: To prevent data loss or corruption when a compute instance is stopped, you can enable graceful shutdown in the instance
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**Preview**: To prevent data loss or corruption when a compute instance is stopped, you can enable graceful shutdown in the instance. This setting gives the guest OS up to one hour to finish running tasks. Gracefully shutting down an instance is helpful when, for example, your database needs time to complete active transactions, your multiplayer session needs time to end properly, or you want to cleanly shutdown a high performance computing (HPC) job.
For more information, see the following pages:
* [Graceful shutdown overview](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/graceful-shutdown-overview)
* [Enable graceful shutdown in a Compute Engine instance](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/enable-graceful-shutdown)
* [View graceful shutdown in a Compute Engine instance ](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/view-graceful-shutdown)
* [Disable graceful shutdown in a Compute Engine instance](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/disable-graceful-shutdown)
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