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		nirvdrum on June 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Dislike EC2 Considering Amazon offers an entire pricing tier around 24/7 utilization (heavy reserved instances), it's probably safe to say that EC2 is no longer purely elastic.

twistedpair on June 4, 2013 [–]

It's called base load, a rather important concept in scaling to demand, much the same as the power industry.

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