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This reminded me of AWS in plain English https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
by ajonit 3y ago
This reminded me of AWS in plain English
https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
- whatsthenews 3y agoThis is a hilarious blog. Honestly, it’s not just the icons but the names as well. A lot of them are completely unrelated to the product and make no sense
- neoncontrails 3y agoAmazon Drawer of Old Android Devices has a certain ring to it.
- morkalork 3y agohttps://i.redd.it/lzveac55vqb61.jpg https://i.redd.it/lzveac55vqb61.jpg
- mdaniel 3y agoYeah, ok, thanks "Entra" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/new-name https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fun... :rolling_eyes:
- morkalork 3y agoOh dear! I'm not even an azure user and I know what AD is and does. Why are they throwing out all their brand recognition for "Entra"??
- cdchn 3y agoI correct people on this daily just because I think its hilarious they changed the name.
- paulddraper 3y agoThe exception that proves the rule. But my goodness, what an exception....
- taffer 3y agoSome of these names are actually worse. For example they propose "Unlimited FTP Server" for what is essentially an HTTP-Blob-Storage.
- paulddraper 3y ago> SWF > Amazon EC2 Queue Nothing to do with EC2 but okay. More like Amazon Distributed Functions.
- AdamH12113 3y agoIt's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names. API Gateway Should have been called: API Proxy It's like: 3Scale SNS Should have been called: Amazon Messenger It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio Kinesis Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput It's like: Kafka (It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)
- commandlinefan 3y agoIt makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.
- jolux 3y agoPretty sure it's not Kafka. Kafka is way more complicated than Kinesis is and has a completely different API.
- hiyer 3y agoIt's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.
- fouc 3y agoKafka was made at Linkedin and then opensourced in Jan 2011, almost 3 years before AWS Kinesis (Dec 2013).
- remus 3y agoI guess the point is not that other companies also have products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's version of Y" is very succinct.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago> Kafka Same. Though, I forget what it is since I heard about it. Now I think it's funny that it could refer to either cruel bureaucracy or turning into a bug.
- ktm5j 3y agoMost of these are really funny, but I feel like they should have just left out the reasonable ones. There's enough of them that it kind of kills the humor after a certain amount of "actually this one is fine" imo.