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S3 (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
by decwakeboarder 11y ago
S3 (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.