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The first letter in EC2 stands for elastic. If you aren't using EC2 for it's elasticity then you're probably doing it wrong. Kind of a no-brainer.

• Goladus 13y ago
  Agreed. And of course, the second letter stands for compute. If you find yourself using words like traffic instead of computation and discussing the finer points of the per-hour billing feature instead of how many CPU-hours of jobs are enqueued, you should definitely consider that you're trying to use a tool that wasn't designed with your needs in mind. That said, AWS in general has a lot of useful tools for web developers, and certainly one use-case of an elastic compute cloud is temporary development instances.
  • vacri 13y ago
    I'm interested to hear the next shoehorned criticism based on the third word, 'cloud'.
    • Goladus 13y ago
      You won't, because there does not appear to be a related chronic misunderstanding with that one.
• nirvdrum 13y ago
  Considering Amazon offers an entire pricing tier around 24/7 utilization (heavy reserved instances), it's probably safe to say that EC2 is no longer purely elastic.
  • twistedpair 13y ago
    It's called base load, a rather important concept in scaling to demand, much the same as the power industry.