Bezos also talked a little about EC2, which is their newest service released in 2006 (Elastic Computing Cloud).

贝索斯也多多少少的谈论到了EC2，这是他们在2006年发布的最新的服务(弹性计算云)。

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Developers can quickly add extra machines when needed and shut them down if there is no demand (which is why the utility is called Elastic Computing Cloud, or EC2).

程序员有需要就可以迅速添加额外的机器，没有就关掉 （所以这个公共程序叫做弹性计算云，或者EC2）。

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For instance, scaling up an application using a larger virtual machine (VM) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be a quick fix when large-scale computing power is needed right away.

比如，当很紧急地需要大规模计算能力的时候，在Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2)上可以非常快地升级一个应用，让它使用更大的虚拟机。

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If they are designed correctly, cloud computing applications that leverage the elastic scaling of cloud-based systems actually provide better performance than locally hosted systems.

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