Joyent IaaS Adds Instance Types, Reserved Pricing Plans

Grazed from Web Host Review.  Author: Nicole Henderson.

Cloud infrastructure company Joyent announced on Thursday an expansion of its product line as well as reserved pricing plans.  As part of the announcement, Joyent has introduced 13 instance types that mimic Amazon’s most popular virtual server types, according to a report by Information Week. Joyent president and CEO Henry Wasik says that the idea is that as people abandon AWS, they will have an equivalent instance to move to.

The new instances and pricing options for Joyent IaaS come as Dell decided earlier this week to discontinue its in-house multi-tenant public cloud in favor of offering IaaS from partners including Joyent…

Like AWS, reserved pricing allows customers to purchase a Joyent service with a one-time fee and receive a discount on the hourly charge for that instance over the contract term. The contracts are available in one and three-year reserved capacity pricing options…

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