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> S3 should be Amazon FTP

I... don't think you know what S3 is. Or maybe what FTP is.

(Also S3, EC2, RDS, etc. were named long before GCP had competing services)

I mean, lots of people put off doing something expensive but safer just because it’s expensive, but rethink after the consequences show.

llbeansandrice4y ago

S3 is nothing like FTP? RDS stands for Relational Database Service. You have a valid point but picked the worst examples.

hagbarddenstore4y ago

S3 is Simple Storage Service RDS is Relational Data Service EC2 is Elastic Compute Cloud

All of these make sense.

If you're gonna complain about names, at least pick the really sucky ones, like Athena, Snowball, etc.

Cederfjard4y ago

You’re saying businesses always make the right decisions and never put them off?

jedberg4y ago

Not at all the case. It was a regional outage that got Netflix to more than double our AWS spend going multi-region, so that outage netted them millions of extra dollars per year just from Netflix.

dilyevsky4y ago

You’re underestimating the ability of eng leadership to not take these issues seriously. Only when there’s sufficient pressure from the very top or even the customers it takes a priority.

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