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thaumasiotes
1y ago
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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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1y ago
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
1y ago
While you’re technically correct, for all intents and purposes it is called S3 even by AWS themselves.
anal_reactor
1y ago
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
1y ago
and EC2 stands for "Elastic Compute Cloud". but no one remembers that.
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