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-Docker: the Linux container engine
-==================================
+Docker: the container engine
+============================
 
 Docker is an open source project to pack, ship and run any application
 as a lightweight container.
 
 Docker containers are both *hardware-agnostic* and *platform-agnostic*.
 This means they can run anywhere, from your laptop to the largest
-EC2 compute instance and everything in between - and they don't require
+cloud compute instance and everything in between - and they don't require
 you to use a particular language, framework or packaging system. That
 makes them great building blocks for deploying and scaling web apps,
 databases, and backend services without depending on a particular stack