>But, it's fun to point at "elastic" and tell people they're "doing it wrong" because they don't take a name chosen 7 years ago literally. It's not an arbitrar

>But, it's fun to point at "elastic" and tell people they're "doing it wrong" because they don't take a name chosen 7 years ago literally. 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819017