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 poi

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.