• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    27 days ago

    Yeah the whole AWS ecosystem has a super shitty naming. Everybody knows S3, but what kind of name is that? All the other services are no better

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      27 days ago

      Simple Storage Service

      E: I agree that their names are shit though. But S3 makes sense (once you know what it means). Just like boto3 makes sense (once you know what it means)

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        27 days ago

        Probably inspired by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, or 3m for short