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It's not an arbitrary name, elasticity is a defining concept of "cloud".
>As if somehow the service (called EC2 virtually everywhere -- not Elastic Cloud Compute) could never evolve beyond that initial use case.
EC2 is one tool. There are other tools in the Amazon box for other use cases [0] and other boxes from other providers entirely.
>Incidentally, the "elastic" in EBS must have a different meaning because one of its primary selling points is that it's persistent storage.
It's elastic because you can allocate and deallocate rapidly and pay only for what's allocated at a given time.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819017
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It's not an arbitrary name, elasticity is a defining concept of "cloud".
>As if somehow the service (called EC2 virtually everywhere -- not Elastic Cloud Compute) could never evolve beyond that initial use case.
EC2 is one tool. There are other tools in the Amazon box for other use cases [0] and other boxes from other providers entirely.
>Incidentally, the "elastic" in EBS must have a different meaning because one of its primary selling points is that it's persistent storage.
It's elastic because you can allocate and deallocate rapidly and pay only for what's allocated at a given time.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819017