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on Dec 21, 2024
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Introducing S2
How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...
thaumasiotes
on Dec 21, 2024
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S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".
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on Dec 21, 2024
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Nickname implies it's unofficial, but S3 is very much the product name too:
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
"Simple storage service" is used once. "S3" is used throughout.
hnlmorg
on Dec 21, 2024
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While you’re technically correct, for all intents and purposes it is called S3 even by AWS themselves.
anal_reactor
on Dec 21, 2024
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When I was a student we had a Facebook group to share information, and one angry guy ranted that the correct shortening of "Mathematical Analysis" is not, in fact, "anal", as we were used to say
rswail
on Dec 22, 2024
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and EC2 stands for "Elastic Compute Cloud". but no one remembers that.
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