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c'mon, they couldn't have named it the Amazon Genomics Toolkit CLI or something to get a T in there and then made the binary be named "agtc" instead of "agc"?

• adreamingsoul 5y ago
  AWS prefers at most three worded service names. Three letter acronyms are easier to remember and pronounce than four.
  • apaprocki 5y ago
    Is there data behind that claim? The Bloomberg Terminal uses up to four and they are not strictly acronyms — sure, WEI is “World Economic Indices”, but TOP is “Top News” and OMON is “Options Monitor”. Four opens up a much wider range of possibilities in English if you don’t strictly use acronyms because there’s a wealth of short words and abbreviations that are super memorable.
    • aaauaucuggaa 5y ago
      a few examples that come to mind: EC2, EMR, ECR, EKS, RDS, EBS, DMS, ECS, VPC, SSS (S3), SNS, SES, IAM,
      • LilBytes 5y ago
        And of course, AWS.
      • saurik 5y ago
        How does this list show these are easier to remember than ones with four characters?
        • singlow 5y ago
          The claim was that amazon prefers 3 letters, so the list supports that claim.
  • high_byte 5y ago
    although in that case agtc is the obvious choice
  • arduinomancer 5y ago
    Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
• pcrh 5y ago
  Maybe they thought agc was a more peaceful, serine, choice?
  • vixen99 5y ago
    You mean serene not the amino acid serine.
    • SomeHacker44 5y ago
      You two, so good. I cannot tell which comment is more amusing. :)
    • rflrob 5y ago
      For the non molecular biologists out there, the 3-base codon AGC gets converted to the amino acid Serine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_and_RNA_codon_tables https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_and_RNA_codon_tables