Yeah but just because a flawed analogy happens to work for people who are completely clueless about S3, doesn't mean you should deliberately misname your service to accommodate this lowest common denominator.
I did not read the article as literally suggesting that Amazon change the name of its service, but rather, as a means of conveying the crux of the idea behind the services.
I also did not take this particular description to indicate a literal FTP service.
Analogies do not have to be perfect to be helpful. I've never used Amazon web services, perhaps partly because I found their terminology too obfuscated to bother trying to figure out what it did. Similar services provided by other companies were more recognizable to me for what they were.
I also did not take this particular description to indicate a literal FTP service.
Analogies do not have to be perfect to be helpful. I've never used Amazon web services, perhaps partly because I found their terminology too obfuscated to bother trying to figure out what it did. Similar services provided by other companies were more recognizable to me for what they were.
I found the post here helpful.