The "Cloud" usually refers to a "public" or "external" cloud, accessed over the Internet, with an off-site provider. The possibilities for engineers are truly exciting, but there are some questions which we need to consider: Are the engineering applications which I use even available in the cloud? Is it acceptable to run critical engineering models (my company's intellectual property) in a public cloud? What do we do if the service fails, as Amazon Web Services did during April 2011? Organizations frequently opt to avoid these issues by using private (or "internal") clouds, while still achieving many of the benefits of cloud computing.
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机译：“云”通常是指通过异地提供商通过Internet访问的“公共”或“外部”云。工程师的可能性确实令人兴奋，但是我们需要考虑一些问题：我使用的工程应用程序甚至可以在云中使用吗？在公共云中运行关键工程模型（我公司的知识产权）是否可以接受？如果服务失败（如Amazon Web Services在2011年4月所做的那样），我们该怎么办？组织经常选择通过使用私有（或“内部”）云来避免这些问题，同时仍然获得云计算的许多好处。
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