Folks for whom a business relationship with Amazon is not possible because of competitive reasons, for one. Regulatory compliance is another.
There're also some big names using Joyent (one of whom is a Fortune 1 company last I heard…) whose policies endorsing third parties are too restrictive to allow their trademarks to be used there.
That said, though, I'm sure that'd be the intended inference.
https://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-wa...
You say that as if it's an immutable fact, as permanent as the laws of nature. Market demand changes all the time.
> no amount of blasting VMs is going to undo that.
I wouldn't be so certain, especially if you have strong performance and ergonomic arguments to back you up. Even more so if you actually have a better alternative to offer.
On the other hand, who's to say they won't start offering containers on bare-metal and keep their lead?
I'm being dramatic here and I obviously don't think amazon will die. But lets re-visit this post in 5 years and I bet AWS is selling a lot more bare metal. Because thats what the market will want.
https://www.joyent.com/public-cloud/aws-comparison
The funny thing is he almost gets it right at the beginning of the talk about how Docker focused on the developer. That's what made Amazon successful.
Who is using Joyent?
https://www.joyent.com/about/customers