Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

亚马逊网络服务(Amazon Web Services)今天宣布对亚马逊弹性计算云(EC2)的新特性进行公测。

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The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment can be seen as a kind of virtualized hosting environment, not a set of services.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 环境可以看作一种虚拟化宿主环境，而不是一组服务。

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For instance, scaling up an application using a larger virtual machine (VM) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be a quick fix when large-scale computing power is needed right away.

比如，当很紧急地需要大规模计算能力的时候，在Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2)上可以非常快地升级一个应用，让它使用更大的虚拟机。

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The Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

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Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.

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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.

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