Amazon elastic compute cloud is what you run your computers on top of. Think of it as an enormously large computer where you can run an infinite number of virtual machines. Running your computers here lets you scale the number of machines active at any given time up or down without ever having to own or care about any physical hardware. Never again will you have to think about maintaining BGP sessions, or that hard disk in server 235 that just failed. Best of all, is the EC2 API.

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