<story><title>AWS icon quiz</title><url>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoston</author><text>Truth!&lt;p&gt;Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be.&lt;p&gt;If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is.&lt;p&gt;If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.&lt;p&gt;If you want something that the marketing folks can feel proud about wasting time on, add the silly name to the descriptive name: Amazon DNS Potato</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drfritznunkie</author><text>&amp;gt; If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.&lt;p&gt;Please no. The unique AWS product names while occasionally inconvenient mean that you can at least find relevant information about them when searching, and you know that someone isn&amp;#x27;t confusing an AWS product with another platform or another style of deployment.&lt;p&gt;If you really don&amp;#x27;t like the AWS product names, then Azure is for you. Now go try to search for help with &amp;quot;Azure web apps&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Azure sql database&amp;quot;. Wade through the posts about locally deployed IIS, SQL server and the like.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS icon quiz</title><url>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoston</author><text>Truth!&lt;p&gt;Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be.&lt;p&gt;If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is.&lt;p&gt;If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.&lt;p&gt;If you want something that the marketing folks can feel proud about wasting time on, add the silly name to the descriptive name: Amazon DNS Potato</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such.&lt;p&gt;When things came close to launch, AWS Marketing decided to just roll with those code names.  I&amp;#x27;ve a suspicion that some teams deliberately used copyrighted names for their internal pre-launch project names, just to force the matter.</text></comment>