Features

SmartOS SmartMachine Features

Performance Up to 14x faster Disk I/O than Amazon Web Services EC2
Up to 5x faster CPU performance than Amazon Web Services EC2
Up to 3x faster Memory I/O than Amazon Web Services EC2
Scaling Dynamic, real-time scaling up to 16 CPUs. Vertically resize your machine (including memory) without an interruption or reboot.
OS Joyent SmartOS pre-loaded and kernel maintained
Security Ultra-secure network with full VNIC control powered by Crossbow
Reliability Carrier-grade, running on top of ZFS
Miscellaneous 100% availability SLA for OS, hardware, and networking
Public/Private IP addresses
Intelligent data caching
1 TB Monthly Bandwidth per account
Developer Friendly Packages


SmartOS CPU Bursting

Size Dedicated Burstable
Small 1GB 1 core 2 cores
Medium 2GB 1 core 4 cores
Medium 4GB 1 core 8 cores
Large 8GB 2 cores 8 cores
Large 16GB 3 cores 8 cores
XL 32GB 4 cores 10 cores
XXL 48GB 8 cores 12 cores
XXXL 64GB 12 cores 14 cores
Dedicated 80GB 15 cores 16 cores

Linux SmartMachine Features

Performance Up to 3x the Disk I/O of Amazon Web Services EC2
Up to 5x the CPU performance of Amazon Web Services EC2
Up to 4x the Memory I/O of Amazon Web Services EC2
Scaling Horizontally scale via user interface or Public API
Security Control your network stack via IP Filter lockdown
Reliability Carrier-grade, running on top of ZFS
Miscellaneous 1 TB Monthly Bandwidth per account
100% availability SLA for hardware and networking