Performance and Scale
A Cloud Designed to Run Apps Exceptionally Well
Joyent Cloud was designed from the ground up to deliver the best application performance and the most rapid scalability of any cloud. Premium Disk I/O and Network I/O support accelerate all applications running in the Joyent Cloud. Our own Joyent SmartOS SmartMachines extend this performance by allowing applications to instantly and automatically burst into large CPU pools at no charge.
In fact, each SmartOS SmartMachine can burst up to 400% instantly to handle large spikes in usage or traffic. Only Joyent SmartOS SmartMachines can resize upwards entire application stacks including multiple layers without rebooting or requiring down time. Third-party benchmark studies have shown that Joyent SmartMachines deliver:
- CPU 5X Faster than Amazon EC2
- Disk I/O 14x Faster than Amazon EC2
- Memory I/O 3X Faster than Amazon EC2
Joyent Cloud also delivers applications exceptionally well on SmartMachines running Windows and Linux operating systems. Joyent Cloud’s KVM hardware virtualization allows Windows and Linux SmartMachines to boot up in 15 seconds or less. In fact, Windows and Linux stacks running on the Joyent Cloud outperform Windows and Linux stacks running on Amazon’s EC2. (Click here to read our benchmark reports.)
