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>Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (“SPICE”) Now that's a nice acronym! I think Amazon have skilled people in charge of marketing. They make t
by erik-n 11y ago
>Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (“SPICE”)
Now that's a nice acronym! I think Amazon have skilled people in charge of marketing. They make their announcements feel exciting but not too "markety".
- Jgrubb 11y agoOn the one hand, you're totally right about the annoucements. On the other hand, the names they give their AWS products are pretty mystifying. AWS Snowball?
- dhj 11y agoAWS Snowball is a play on AWS Glacier. Glacier is the slow moving practically frozen storage system. Snowball takes the same stuff and hurls it rapidly to a destination. Pretty slick.