[andrewstuart]

I would like it if the major cloud providers implemented microsecond boot and teardown times for instances along with suitable pricing.

Unikernels and a whole zoo of other types of tiny operating systems would be enabled by this.

I'm not a fan of containers - I feel they are reimplementing much of the operating system infrastructure within the OS at the price of high and unnecessary complexity.

It's frustrating that cloud computing has so many benefits, but at another level we must wait and hope that Amazon Google and Microsoft are willing to implement new architectures such as microsecond level boot and teardown.