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"Each container deployed is securely isolated from other customers using proven virtualization technology. " Does anybody know if they mentioned anywhere what they use? LXC or Jails? Or some homegrown stuff?
If this works as advertised, it's awesome. It's like AWS lambda, without language restrictions, CPU or RAM throttling, etc. Truly serverless
If you really want to draw a comparison with AWS product, it's pretty much a serverless EC2 ECS.
Because, previously, “serverless” seemed to mean not needing to deal with anything lower-level infrastructure than function calls (that is, a higher level of abstraction than even a classical PaaS like GAE managed runtimes), while container hosting, dynamically scalable or not, is somewhere between classic IaaS and classic application-language PaaS.
This is a surprisingly unique product. AWS ECS and GKE both require some form of management of the underlying VM. A lot of that management is abstracted away, but not in the same way this is.
That being said, pricing [2] seems odd. At $0.0000125/GB_Second and $0.001/Core_Second, lets say you want to replicate an Azure A3 instance (4core/7gb/$130). That would cost... over $10,000/mo. Is my math right on this? It can't be.
For one-off jobs, maybe this makes sense, but as the backbone of a Kubernetes pool or something I'm not so sure.
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-...
So, are we just now using “serverless” to just mean “dynamically scalable” the same way that “cloud” used to? Because, previously, “serverless” seemed to mean not needing to deal with anything lower-level infrastructure than function calls (that is, a higher level of abstraction than even a classical PaaS like GAE managed runtimes), while container hosting, dynamically scalable or not, is somewhere between classic Ia…
So, are we just now using “serverless” to just mean “dynamically scalable” the same way that “cloud” used to? Because, previously, “serverless” seemed to mean not needing to deal with anything lower-level infrastructure than function calls (that is, a higher level of abstraction than even a classical PaaS like GAE managed runtimes), while container hosting, dynamically scalable or not, is somewhere between classic Ia…
Does anyone know what service discovery, network security policy and ability to add multiple redundant copies of the same service this offers? I'm guessing it's powered heavily by kubernetes, so maybe that answers the question, but I'd be interested to know more about the details.
Companies like Hyper [1] should be put on notice. This is a surprisingly unique product. AWS ECS and GKE both require some form of management of the underlying VM. A lot of that management is abstracted away, but not in the same way this is. That being said, pricing [2] seems odd. At $0.0000125/GB_Second and $0.001/Core_Second, lets say you want to replicate an Azure A3 instance (4core/7gb/$130). That would cost... o…