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Whoa errors! * S3 is not FTP. It's more like static web hosting and storage. * VPC is not a "colocated rack" as it doesn't offer physical placement of hardwa
by snorkel 11y ago
Whoa errors!
* S3 is not FTP. It's more like static web hosting and storage.
* VPC is not a "colocated rack" as it doesn't offer physical placement of hardware. Amazon VLAN would be a better name. It's just private network address space.
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- code_sterling 11y agoWhoa pedantry. It's fine the way it is.
- Goladus 11y agoNo, calling it Amazon FTP would be both misleading and incorrect, and is a very bad idea.
- schrodinger 11y agoI disagree. It gets the point across to me, and is presented in the right manner for me to not take it literally.
- Goladus 11y agoNot to me. The absurd lack of plausibility and simply erroneous analogy makes the whole rhetorical technique distracting and misleading rather than funny and insightful.
- code_sterling 11y agoYou must be fun at parties.
- decwakeboarder 11y agoS3 (or any object store) "is like FTP" has been the best explanation I've used. Way too many people I've talked to think that it's a POSIX-compliant filesystem and "like FTP" is familiar enough to them to know that treating it like a standard filesystem is a terrible idea.
- Goladus 11y agoYeah but just because a flawed analogy happens to work for people who are completely clueless about S3, doesn't mean you should deliberately misname your service to accommodate this lowest common denominator.
- tjr 11y agoI did not read the article as literally suggesting that Amazon change the name of its service, but rather, as a means of conveying the crux of the idea behind the services. I also did not take this particular description to indicate a literal FTP service. Analogies do not have to be perfect to be helpful. I've never used Amazon web services, perhaps partly because I found their terminology too obfuscated to bother trying to figure out what it did. Similar services provided by other companies were more recognizable to me for what they were. I found the post here helpful.
- Goladus 11y agoI did not read the article as literally suggesting that Amazon change the name of its service Neither did I. But it's flawed even as a rhetorical device. For that kind of thing to work for me, it would have to at least be plausible.
- ahallock 11y agoFTP is a good analogy. A lot of people are familiar with FTP, and given a good s3 client, it appears the same.
- Goladus 11y agoI guess for people who don't understand what FTP really is, and wouldn't find it valuable to understand what S3 really is.