The hyper.sh API address is us-west-1.hyper.sh, which looks like the AWS style, however, it is not an AWS address and it is located in an independent IDC around Los Angels.
VMware has a similar project. The HyperContainer project is opensourced in May last year, same as Intel clear linux, and is prior to the VMware project.
The most significant improvement comes from the BootFromTemplate, which improves speed and saves memory. And the boot sequence and guest kernel have been optimized.
With HyperContainer, we make the performance/overhead of virtualized container similar to linux container --- 130ms launch time, and sharing the read-only part of memory (kernel and init). As a result, we can use it as a more secure container.
A pod on a kernel/initrd, contains one or more docker images in different mount namespaces. The "containers" in pod share network and ipc namespace each other.