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Droplets are what EC2 calls their hosts. Confusing? I know.

• tptacek 3y ago
  Yes! That is confusing! Tell them to stop it!
  • kiwijamo 3y ago
    FYI it's not a AWS term, it's a DigitalOcean term.
    • tptacek 3y ago
      I could not be more confused. Does EC2 quietly call their hosting machines "droplets"? I knew "droplets" to be a DigitalOcean team, but DigitalOcean doesn't have Nitro cards.
      • apitman 3y ago
        Now I'm wondering if that's where DO got the name in the first place
        • chatmasta 3y ago
          Surely "droplet" is a derivative of "ocean?"
          • arrakeenrevived 3y ago
            Clouds (like, the big fluffy things in the sky) are made up of many droplets of liquid. Using "droplet" to refer to the things that make up cloud computing is a pretty natural nickname for any cloud provider, not just DO. I do imagine that DO uses "droplet" as a public product branding because it works well with their "Ocean" brand, though. ...now I'm actually interested in knowing if "droplet" is derived from "ocean", or if "Digital Ocean" was derived from having many droplets (which was derived from cloud). Maybe neither.
            • driftnet 3y ago
              Clouds are water vapor, not droplets.
              • abadpoli 3y ago
                “Cloud: Visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
              • singleshot_ 3y ago
                Clouds are condensed water droplets in the air. The air below the cloud has just about the same amount of water in it, but at the altitude of the bottom of the cloud, the atmosphere is cool enough for that water vapor to condense, forming the cloud. Search terms include “lapse rate” if you would like to learn more.
      • deleted 3y ago
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    • sargun 3y ago
      I believe AWS was calling them droplets prior to digital ocean.
    • yolovoe 3y ago
      It’s an internal ec2 term too. We don’t use it externally and I shouldn’t have used it to avoid all this confusion. Internally, we say droplet instead of host as there are multiple hosts/mobos per droplet these days. It’s no longer true that when you get a metal droplet, you get the entire droplet.
• yolovoe 3y ago
  Yes, we internally call servers droplets. We have multiple hosts/mobos in the same server these days so calling them hosts is confusing, and droplet is a really old term here from what i can tell.