You do realize that the cited code names are all acronyms for simple descriptive names, right? (Relational Database Service. Simple Storage Service. Elastic C

You do realize that the cited code names are all acronyms for simple descriptive names, right? (Relational Database Service. Simple Storage Service. Elastic Compute Cloud). It should surprise nobody that simple descriptive names are often inconvenient in day-to-day use, and hence get turned into abbreviations. > Why are Dynamo and Redshift not part of RDS while Aurora is? Because Aurora is a relational database (see above), and Dynamo and Redshift are not? Of course, it would seem that some marketing weasels managed to get into the organization; new names are fizzy opaque brands instead of the old descriptive-ish naming.