A key characteristic of the cloud is its ability to offer elastic scalability by easily increasing or decreasing compute power to meet changing demand.

云端的一个关键特色是它能够通过增减计算能力来满足变化的需求，提供有弹性的可伸缩性。

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Elastic compute cloud - a web service providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

弹性计算云——这是一个Web Service，提供了云环境下的弹性计算能力。

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Its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), now joined by storage, queuing, database, and other options, allowed anyone to fire up a virtual machine, for an hour or forever.

它的可伸缩计算云程序（EC2），现在联合了存储，存储队列，数据库和其他选择功能，可以允许每一个人建造出一台虚拟的仪器，不管这台机器仅工作一小时还是永久工作下去。

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There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.

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