In 2006 it started offering a computing utility called Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2006年它就开始提供一种计算公共程序叫做亚马逊网页服务(aws)。

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Utility computing refers to the business model of paying for data traffic or application usage.

效用计算是指按数据流量或应用程序的使用支付费用的一种业务模型。

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As the figure shows, the top level of abstraction is elasticity, automated deployment, and utility computing.

如图所示，抽象的顶部是灵活性、自动部署和实用计算。

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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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Founded in 2004, 3Tera was in many ways the first commercial utility computing platform.

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But for now, those larger companies are treating utility computing services as side projects or experiments.

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