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there on Dec 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS

if anyone is wondering about the name, 53 is the port that dns operates over.

mleonhard on Dec 6, 2010 [–]

It's an unfortunate name choice since '53' looks so similar to 'S3'.

daxelrod on Dec 7, 2010 | [–]

My first guess was that that was intentional. It seemed clever at first, but now I'm not so sure.

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