Yes, you are running on shared hardware, securely, but with no hypervisor. The biggest money-saver is in performance. IO-heavy applications can see anywhere fr

Yes, you are running on shared hardware, securely, but with no hypervisor. The biggest money-saver is in performance. IO-heavy applications can see anywhere from 5-10x performance improvements[1] by switching from hardware- to OS-virtualization. [1]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/01/11/virtualization-performance-zones-kvm-xen/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/01/11/virtualization-pe...