- on-demand, instant resourcing: you can request 200 new compute instances and you can get them, there and then. Most shared or dedicated hosting providers cannot scale to that on-demand.
- the Cloud provider offers an API: you can provision new resources through API calls, not just via web GUIs. This thought is from John M Willis: http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/does-a-cloud-have-to-have-an-api-to-be-a-cloud/
Cheers,
Craig
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