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Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of EC2-Classic, which once underpinned its third cloud service: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2-Classic is an environment in which EC2 instances run "in a single, flat network that you share with other customers," as Amazon put it. However, as AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff …

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  1. NetBlackOps

    Back in 1979 I was advocating using a network of computers with programs tied together to simulate nuclear reactors. It took a while to get there, though. Now, thanks to Amazon, it's a piece of cake to stand up the simulation whenever required, run the simulation and drop it when done.

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    1. elsergiovolador Silver badge
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      and drop it when done.

      and how does the simulation feel about it? It must feel terrible to be used and then just dropped :-( Poor simulations...

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      1. Robert Grant
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        Drop those simulated nuclear reactions like they're hot.

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