AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next (opens in new tab)

"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."

Thank you, good sir. I admire the sheer simplicity of your proposed solution and the wisdom contained in it.

Since my client is coming up on a SAP R/3 to S/4 transition, which is due to complete by 2027 (a real timeline), I have informed my dear colleague, a SAP enterprise architect, of a much simpler way forward that you have suggested. Sadly and disappointingly, my colleague architect has launched into rumbling and mumbling about the business transformation being more important than the technology transition. Outrageous and completely unheard of.

This is all happening in Q4 at https://www.q2.com/, of course.

If consumers are so likely to confuse "S3" and "R2" that a court would grant trademark enforcement to S3 over this, then Mazda could have successfully sued BMW over the confusion between MX-2 and M3, not to mention the total havoc such a court judgment would wreak upon the SMT labeling industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777350

If Cloudflare had an entire AWS-simulation business and was making a clear effort to confuse customers about being "just like AWS, only not Amazon", then that might be an easier case to win, but Cloudflare seems pretty dead-set on being different than AWS (for example, they offer customer support), so that's unlikely.

Amazon might still sue just as saber-rattling, but that would open them up to a SLAPP countersuit, against a party that has repeatedly demonstrated that it is willing to fund lawyers to punish those abusing the legal system — not to mention being mocked around the world for suing over a two character product name with no shared characters.

Judge: What does S3 even stand for?

Amazon: Simple Storage Solutions, sir.

Judge: Ok, and what does R2 stand for?

CF: Uhhh....it's one less than S3, sir.

Judge: Ok, and what does R2D2 stand for?

Lucas: Why am I here?

History rhymes with itself?

"Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle"

"RedShift was apparently named very deliberately as a nod to Oracle’ trademark red branding"

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-reportedly...

Wait until you find out why the giant evil computer is named HAL!

As Intel found out when they were unable to stop AMD naming their Intel 486 compatible CPU Am486, there's a certain threshold of creativity a name has to reach for trademark protection.

These short letter/number sequences aren't it.

Smaller companies than Cloudflare have used similar naming for S3 compatible services without issue, see Backblaze B2

"Xbox One X Series X Service Pack 1 September Refresh CTP Preview 3 Update 5a*. I mean, imma buy it, but lord MSFT sucks at naming stuff" [0]

"I once worked on the unambiguously named "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005". Yes, it had "Microsoft" and ".NET" in the name twice. When the name was announced we all laughed as we assumed it was a joke. It was not." [1]

[0] https://nitter.net/shanselman/status/1205355248715358215

[1] https://nitter.net/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112

I'll never not link this video when it comes to Microsoft naming and branding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

It's even worse than that because Azure has block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs.

Microsoft Blob. That has a certain ring to it.

Are you sure it's not Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Solution for Enterprise 2020?

They'd already used Bob.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

this is legit a much better name while also being reductio ad absurdum, it also follows the convention (R2 = rapid, reliable, S3= simple storage service, O1 = object)

Q1

Three years ago I sat in front of a whiteboard with some folks and we sketched out the future roadmap for Cloudflare Workers. Here's a picture of that whiteboard: https://imgur.com/a/nSnrT15

We went with "R2" because it better reflects the fact that we want it to be S3 minus one thing: egress fees.

Certainly not in Canada. T4 is the name of employment income tax slip here, similar to W-2 in the US.

I imagine most people who complain about intergalactic politics in the prequels must have never gotten to the scene in A New Hope where people just sit around and discuss the dissolution of the galactic senate and the political reordering of the galaxy.

That's what my NAS is called

EXI and BUF sound pausible. ATE is IBM minus eight, which is a nice coincidence.

Was that before or after HAL in 2001 space odyssey?

B2 is nice but horrendously slow.

Presumably that's a clever joke about cryptocurrencies. It took me a while to convince myself that the analogy made sense, and I'm not sure how much I appreciate it, but I suppose that slow confirmation times and questionable value are to be expected when dealing with cryptocurrencies.

Is it worth it to host some disks for this?

The letter before R is Q.

>Sometimes this goes from R2 to Q1 (makes sense), but sometimes it goes to H1. Is there an alphabet that puts H right before R?

And this one goes to 11...Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry.

Fixed, added a thank you for you in the console!

Google Cloud yes, Google Play Music All Access not so much.

Anybody know the logic behind the counter? It sometimes jumps over numbers.

That would have to be Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/mx/cloud/storage/object-storage.html

What would you suggest? After 0 go back to 2,147,483,647?