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my only question is why Amazon didn't give it a strange name (like most of the other AWS products)! Maybe they decided that "WAF" was sufficiently ambiguous.

my only question is why Amazon didn't give it a strange name (like most of the other AWS products)! Maybe they decided that "WAF" was sufficiently ambiguous. My first guess was s/firewall/framework/.

varelse 11y ago
I'd have given them major kudos if they'd called it Web Traffic Firewall instead.
- cperciva 11y ago
  The first alternative name which came to my mind was "API Condom", but I like your idea more.
- buremba 11y ago
  Amazon WTF