It's KVM on Redhat with a fairly custom guest kernel, including
optimized drivers for their network encapsulation. Auth is handled using
their existing OAuth2.0 infrastructure.
As Matt said, their offering is fairly different from EC2 (and
Openstack), competing more with compute-heavy providers, rather than
amazon-like application-host offerings.
Their beta is currently only available to customers that they expect
will run real jobs. Expect a phone call and a conversation about your
application and current compute use before your organization gets an invite.
One neat thing about their product is that they provide dedicated
spindles on ephemeral disks for instances with more than 2 cores.
Their user tooling looks very nice. There are probably features worth
borrowing there.
-Paul
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