<story><title>AWS services explained in one line each</title><url>https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expeditedsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;aws-in-plain-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expeditedsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;aws-in-plain-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does AWS use such convoluted language? Is it because they&amp;#x27;re dominant and it adds friction to moving to another provider?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben509</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s because naming things is hard, that link proves it by coming up with worse names for almost everything they tried to rename, and often far, far worse.&lt;p&gt;Imagine the confusion if S3 were called &amp;quot;Amazon Unlimited FTP Server.&amp;quot; That gets every word wrong, except that &amp;quot;Amazon&amp;quot; is merely redundant. It&amp;#x27;s not unlimited (having to pay for a thing is a limit), it&amp;#x27;s not using FTP, and it&amp;#x27;s a service, not a server.&lt;p&gt;Or if VPC was &amp;quot;Amazon Virtual Colocated Rack&amp;quot;. A &amp;quot;colocated rack&amp;quot; means your computer in their datacenter. They actually have this service, it&amp;#x27;s called Direct Connect, because you can actually&lt;p&gt;Lambda does require you&amp;#x27;ve got some vague notion of what lambda notation is. But &amp;quot;AWS App Scripts&amp;quot; suggests it&amp;#x27;s for mobile &amp;quot;apps&amp;quot;, but it is not specific to those. And it suggests it&amp;#x27;s only for scripts, but you can run an entire application on Lambda just fine.&lt;p&gt;Or even DynamoDB. They recommend &amp;quot;Amazon NoSQL.&amp;quot; They&amp;#x27;re not offering many NoSQL databases, just their proprietary one: DynamoDB. They have a service that offers many relational databases and that &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; called Relational Database Service.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS services explained in one line each</title><url>https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expeditedsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;aws-in-plain-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expeditedsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;aws-in-plain-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does AWS use such convoluted language? Is it because they&amp;#x27;re dominant and it adds friction to moving to another provider?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adwww</author><text>This is one of the things I love about GCP.&lt;p&gt;Kubernetes Engine, Compute, Storage, Memory Store, Cloud SQL, PubSub.... almost all of the main services do what they say on the tin.&lt;p&gt;The only downside is - ironically - it sometimes makes googling for help a bit tricker. Eg. Are you search for generic cloud storage or the Google product with the same name?</text></comment>