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How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...

• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".
  • hnlmorg 2y ago
    While you’re technically correct, for all intents and purposes it is called S3 even by AWS themselves.
  • eterm 2y ago
    Nickname implies it's unofficial, but S3 is very much the product name too: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ "Simple storage service" is used once. "S3" is used throughout.
  • anal_reactor 2y ago
    When I was a student we had a Facebook group to share information, and one angry guy ranted that the correct shortening of "Mathematical Analysis" is not, in fact, "anal", as we were used to say
  • rswail 2y ago
    and EC2 stands for "Elastic Compute Cloud". but no one remembers that.