Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such. When things came close to launch, AWS Ma

Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such. When things came close to launch, AWS Marketing decided to just roll with those code names. I've a suspicion that some teams deliberately used copyrighted names for their internal pre-launch project names, just to force the matter.