Bare-metal cloud servers are a best-of-both-worlds alternative to dedicated hosting and VM-based cloud infrastructure services in some cases, but they do complicate data center capacity management for the service provider...
Managed service providers are often colocation customers, but what happens when what they're managing is located in the big public clouds?
Offering available to US-based customers initially and will be available for international customers in early 2016
Upgrades software for better problem resolution, use of common ops data sets across aps and infrastructure