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They're not exactly competitive:

https://www.joyent.com/pricing/cloud/compute

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

They claim to be half the price of AWS [0]. Digital Ocean isn't relevant here as they don't offer container hosting.

[0] - https://www.joyent.com/pricing/compare

In your link, they're comparing to EC2 VMs not Amazon's Container hosting.

Their whole premise is that their containers are equivalent to/better than VMs[0].

0: https://www.joyent.com/blog/understanding-triton-containers

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