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What IS it about AWS and the opaque naming of their services?! There is a reason this exists: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://www.expe
by Malic 10y ago
What IS it about AWS and the opaque naming of their services?! There is a reason this exists: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
- mbeaty_1 10y agoThose names assume a decent amount of technical understanding. A lot of times the people who will end up paying big bucks for these services don't know what transactional E-mail is, so calling it SES or Amazon Transaction E-mail wouldn't make a difference. So, they go with a "cool" name.
- rgreasons 10y agombeaty_1 above me has a point, but I think Snowmobile & Snowball both tie into the naming for AWS Glacier.
- jonknee 10y agoIt's such a rarely needed service that I can't imagine naming it AWS Data Center Mover would make any difference at all in terms of usage. The number of customers who could make use of this thing is tiny, it doesn't matter what it is called.