{"id":11691,"date":"2011-12-08T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/elastic-computing\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:40:47","slug":"elastic-computing","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/26598\/elastic-computing-ec","title":{"rendered":"Elastic Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_elastic_computing_mean\">What Does Elastic Computing Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Elastic computing is a concept in cloud computing in which computing resources can be scaled up and down easily by the cloud service provider. Elastic computing is the ability of a cloud service provider to provision flexible computing power when and wherever required. The elasticity of these resources can be in terms of processing power, storage, bandwidth, etc.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_elastic_computing\">Techopedia Explains Elastic Computing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cloud computing is about provisioning on-demand computing resources with the simplicity of a mouse click. The amount of resources which can be sourced through cloud computing incorporates almost all the facets of computing from raw processing power to massive storage space. <\/p>\n<p> Besides providing these services on demand basis, the resources are elastic in nature, i.e. they can be easily scaled depending upon the underlying resource requirements on run time without even disrupting the operations and this ability is known as elastic computing. On a small scale this is done manually, but for larger installations, the scaling is automatic. 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