Three years after getting bought by Samsung, Joyent is giving up on competing with Amazon in the cloud computing game

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Three years after getting bought by Samsung, Joyent is giving up on competing with Amazon in the cloud computing game

Steve Tuck, president and COO of Joyent

Joyent

Steve Tuck, president and COO of Joyent

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Joyent, a cloud company that was acquired by Samsung three years ago, announced Thursday that it's discontinuing its public cloud offering, which competed with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud.

Like the leading AWS, Joyent allowed developers to rent computing capacity from its data centers on a pay-as-you-go basis. Starting in November, Joyent will discontinue its public cloud and instead focus its resources elsewhere.

"To all of our public cloud customers, we will work closely with you over the coming five months to help you transition your applications and infrastructure as seamlessly as possible to their new home," Steve Tuck, president and COO of Joyent, said in a blog post.

Instead of competing head-to-head with Amazon Web Services, Joyent will now focus its energies elsewhere - specifically, on so-called "single-tenant" cloud services, where it provides a dedicated chunk of computing infrastructure to one customer and one customer only. Samsung is one such user of those services, it says. Joyent will also continue to provide cloud software for customers' own data centers and servers.

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Back in 2016, Samsung acquired Joyent for $125 million, taking one of the few independent competitors to Amazon Web Services and the other leading cloud giants off the market. Joyent was backed by Peter Thiel, Intel Capital, and others.

The company was an early proponent of software container technology, which has since been popularized by the $1.3 billion startup Docker and the open source cloud project Kubernetes.

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