I'm excited to see what they put together, because this raises a number of similar gripes I have with public cloud in its current state:

* Insistence on adding costly abstractions to overcome the limitations of non-fungible resources

* Deliberate creation of over or under-sized resource "pieces" instead of letting folks consume what they need

* Deliberate incompatibility with other vendors to enforce lock-in

I pitched a "Universal Cloud" abstraction layer years ago that never got any traction, and honestly this sounds like a much better solution anyhow. When modern virtualization is baked into OS kernels, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to enforce arbitrary resource sizes or limits other than to inflate consumption.

Kubernetes without all the stuff that makes it a bugbear to administrate, in other words. Let me buy/rent a pool of stuff and use it how I see fit, be it containers or VMs or what-have-you.