EC2 is actually a really good name, as it has the important part of cloud right in the name: elastic. Generally, if your load is elastic, and you can design yo

EC2 is actually a really good name, as it has the important part of cloud right in the name: elastic. Generally, if your load is elastic, and you can design your solution to take advantage of the elasticity of EC2, you will do well in the cloud. If you just lift-and-shift your virtual machines into EC2, with no elasticity or scaling, you're going to hurt, in either performance, cost, or both.