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dbarlett on March 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Publish events from your Spark Core

From The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing [1], there are five essential characteristics of cloud computing:

  * On-demand self service
  * Broad network access
  * Resource pooling
  * Rapid elasticity
  * Measured service

If EC2/AWS doesn't meet that definition, what does?

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145...

sp332 on March 13, 2014 [–]

I just mean that you have to care a little too much about where the servers are (by region and availability zone) and of course you know who owns them :)

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