[dbarlett]

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]

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 :)