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by Twirrim 2881 days ago
Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such.

When things came close to launch, AWS Marketing decided to just roll with those code names. I've a suspicion that some teams deliberately used copyrighted names for their internal pre-launch project names, just to force the matter.