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0 pointsdylan6044y ago0 comments

>Some of the names are completely uninformative though

Does Microsoft make you think computer OS? Does Apple make you think of computers and personal devices? Do common names Alexa/Siri mean anything specific to you?

None of the words used in those examples have anything to do with what they do, but they are now synonymous with everything you think of when those words are spoken/written. That's because the companies have spent time developing them as brands. AMZN through AWS has just come up with names so that they can be discussed more easily. They haven't really spent time with ad agencies running lifestyle campaigns for them.

I also think it falls into "I don't use something enough to fully remember what it does". However, is anyone reading this really not aware of what S3 does? EC2? Those are the basics where pretty much anyone starts with. Sure, not everyone will need EKS and it becomes more esoteric, but people that do it day-to-day know exactly what EKS is.

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chrsig4y ago

I get the point, that with sufficient branding to a target audience, the issue is negated, but I think you're conflating branding for a corporation with branding for niche products. The level of effort put into branding the corporation at large versus the level of branding for any individual service is orders of magnitude apart.

Importantly, with AWS, there's dozens of services, all competing for a three letter address space. It's getting saturated, so it's easier and easier to get confused.

> Sure, not everyone will need EKS and it becomes more esoteric, but people that do it day-to-day know exactly what EKS is.

This is sort of my point. I work with kubernetes and kafka. The kafka instance that I connect to is managed, the k8s cluster I deploy to is not. I can't tell you off the top of my head if EKS is managed k8s or managed kafka. That was the breaking point for me to stop putting effort into trying to remember.

I have pretty severe ADHD, so I can accept that I'm probably outside a standard deviation as far as ability to remember three letter acronyms, but I think I still stand as a contradiction to your assertion.

hypertele-Xii4y ago

Huh? Microsoft is almost literally microprocessor software. Sounds pretty descriptive to me.

dylan604OP4y ago

I had intended to add Windows to that, but my brain-to-typing-fingers skipped over it. The word "Windows" tells me nothing about what it does in the "same contenxt" as what's being discussed here. We've just had that crap shoved down our gullets for all this time it has become synonymous with software operating system not because the word is descriptive of purpose.

hypertele-Xii4y ago

Disagree on that too, the concept of movable "windows" into programs is quite descriptive also. What else would you call it? Programmable Rectangles? Subscreens?

syshum4y ago

>Does Microsoft make you think computer OS?

No, because it is Company not an OS. And today I bet more people associate Microsoft with Xbox, or Office then with Windows. Windows has been Microsoft's least profitable division for awhile now. The OS is their loss leader

> Does Apple make you think of computers and personal devices?

No, Apple makes me think of Cringe Hippies over spending on an poorly engineered fashion statement... ;) Or prime example of a company claiming to be environmentally friendly while actively designing their products to have to be thrown away instead of repaired...

>AMZN through AWS has just come up with names so that they can be discussed more easily.

I dont think that is true at all, even in tech circles trying to remember what the different service names are is pain.

Amazon AWS took a look at Microsoft, the worse company in the world at naming things, and said "Hold my beer"

>>However, is anyone reading this really not aware of what S3 does? EC2?

S3, probably not but it is also the oldest product and has become Standard Standard Cloud based Object Storage, S3 while an AWS service is also a protocol adopted by countless other services, and open source projects.

EC2, Yes I better there are those that do not know what EC2 is, or that to use EC2 you need EBS. And the deeper you go the more complex the web of services become.

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0 pointsdylan6044y ago0 comments

>Some of the names are completely uninformative though

Does Microsoft make you think computer OS? Does Apple make you think of computers and personal devices? Do common names Alexa/Siri mean anything specific to you?

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chrsig4y ago

Importantly, with AWS, there's dozens of services, all competing for a three letter address space. It's getting saturated, so it's easier and easier to get confused.

> Sure, not everyone will need EKS and it becomes more esoteric, but people that do it day-to-day know exactly what EKS is.

hypertele-Xii4y ago

Huh? Microsoft is almost literally microprocessor software. Sounds pretty descriptive to me.

dylan604OP4y ago

hypertele-Xii4y ago

Disagree on that too, the concept of movable "windows" into programs is quite descriptive also. What else would you call it? Programmable Rectangles? Subscreens?

syshum4y ago

>Does Microsoft make you think computer OS?

> Does Apple make you think of computers and personal devices?

>AMZN through AWS has just come up with names so that they can be discussed more easily.

I dont think that is true at all, even in tech circles trying to remember what the different service names are is pain.

Amazon AWS took a look at Microsoft, the worse company in the world at naming things, and said "Hold my beer"

>>However, is anyone reading this really not aware of what S3 does? EC2?

EC2, Yes I better there are those that do not know what EC2 is, or that to use EC2 you need EBS. And the deeper you go the more complex the web of services become.

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