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AWS prefers at most three worded service names. Three letter acronyms are easier to remember and pronounce than four.
by adreamingsoul 5y ago
AWS prefers at most three worded service names. Three letter acronyms are easier to remember and pronounce than four.
- apaprocki 5y agoIs 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 agoa few examples that come to mind: EC2, EMR, ECR, EKS, RDS, EBS, DMS, ECS, VPC, SSS (S3), SNS, SES, IAM,
- high_byte 5y agoalthough in that case agtc is the obvious choice
- arduinomancer 5y agoAmazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)