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I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you liste
by angry_octet 11y ago
I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology.
Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Cloudfront is? Its like insisting Toyota call the Camry the Toyota Mid Size Car.
- beams_of_light 11y agoWhat differentiates S3 from FTP, WebDAV, or other file transfer technologies?
- matwood 11y agoWow really? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/ Replication, versioning, security, life-cycle management, events to name a few.
- gizzlon 11y agoThink you took this waaay took seriously ;)
- zephod 11y agoI believe the author was making the point that the names are overly descriptive ("Elastic Compute Cloud" -- not at all innaccurate, but not easy to grok; the less descriptive "Amazon Virtual Servers" is easier for a newbie to recognise and intuitively understand). Like most entries on the list, Amazon S3 _is_ a new concept but try explaining it to somebody without mentioning FTP -- you'll see what I mean. What was that quote about the only hard problems in Computer Science?
- shiftpgdn 11y agoI don't know who you hang around by Amazon does NOT own the terminology. There have been common names for all this stuff for the last 10-30 years. Amazon invented their own terms out of hubris.