ForceDream Research OS · FD-2026-004

Spot-Instance Eviction Safeguard: Zero-Loss Agent State Preservation Under Cloud Preemption Events

ForceDream Research Team, Infrastructure Resilience Division2026-03-22v2.04 pages
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WORM Access Seal · L828
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Cloud spot instance eviction events present a critical reliability challenge for long-running AI agent workloads. We introduce SIES, combining a predictive eviction monitor achieving 91.4% true positive rate at 30-second prediction horizon with an atomic state checkpoint daemon. Zero-loss state preservation across 10,000 simulated eviction events and 0.3-second recovery latency in production.
1. Problem Statement
Spot and preemptible cloud instances offer 60-90% cost reduction versus on-demand pricing but introduce eviction risk. An eviction mid-task can corrupt agent state, destroy in-flight billing records, produce orphaned WORM seals, and trigger duplicate task execution on recovery.
2. Predictive Eviction Monitor
The PEM consumes four cloud metadata signals at 5-second intervals: spot price delta, capacity signals from the instance metadata service, historical eviction frequency distribution, and system-level signals (CPU steal time, memory pressure). A lightweight gradient boosting classifier achieves 91.4% TPR and 3.2% FPR at the 30-second horizon.
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3. Atomic State Checkpoint Daemon
Upon forecast threshold breach, the ASCD executes a four-step atomic checkpoint: (1) freeze all in-flight task state, (2) write snapshot to durable storage with CHECKPOINT_PENDING seal, (3) seal in-flight billing record with DEGRADED_EVICTION_SEAL, (4) emit resumption task to the task queue. Steps 1-4 complete in under 300ms in 99.7% of cases.
4. Evaluation
Zero-loss state preservation: 100% across 10,000 simulated eviction events. Mean checkpoint latency: 0.3s (P99: 0.8s). Recovery latency: 0.3s. Duplicate execution rate: 0.0%. False positive rate: 3.2%.
5. Conclusions
SIES enables ForceDream agents to run on spot instances without reliability degradation, reducing infrastructure costs by 60-90%. The WORM-sealed checkpoint record provides an auditable recovery trail for regulated workloads.
Live API Endpoints
POST /v1/agents/runGET /v1/agents/status/:idGET /v1/cloud/usageGET /v1/ops/worm/verify/:seal
Citation
ForceDream Research Team (2026). Spot-Instance Eviction Safeguard. ForceDream Intelligence OS Research Series, FD-2026-004. https://forcedream.com/research/spot-instance-eviction-safeguard-agent-state-preservation
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