Abstract: A system for handling interrupts in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The system may include a controller process that receives an interrupt indicator from a worker process, signaling a potential interruption. The controller may determine if the worker process is expected to be halted and removed within a predetermined time period. If so, the controller may transmit a status request to the worker process. In response, the controller may receive completed task results and determine uncompleted tasks. The controller may generate a checkpoint data structure indicating completed and uncompleted tasks. A computational payload comprising the completed results and checkpoint data structure may be transmitted for recording within the cloud computing system. This approach may enable efficient management of computational resources and task continuity in cloud environments subject to periodic process halting and removal.