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by mnem 4423 days ago
What makes a cloud a cloud and not a vps?
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lazylizard 4423 days ago
maybe http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145... ?
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mnem 4423 days ago
That's interesting. So, from that, the thing that stops DO being a cloud service (and linode and so on) is that you can't say "I used 2 CPUs at 100% for 12 hours"? It only allows for the granularity of saying "the node was on for 12 hours"?
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