Check out Hyper.sh too. It abstracts away the whole datacenter -- you can use `hyper` instead of `docker`, basically. You don't need to think about VMs ever as a concept, containers run directly on the hypervisor. And they have Hyper Func, an AWS Lambda-like alternative that uses images. And per second billing.
On the downsides, they're small and they have one data center, and they're not Microsoft. But their tech is open source.
We don't want to compete with the big providers, instead we open source the tech to enable more container-native clouds, where the world will become a seamless (portable) network for containers (different clouds are different ports with the same image spec and API).
On the downsides, they're small and they have one data center, and they're not Microsoft. But their tech is open source.