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by EMM_386 2481 days ago
The naming system ... Route53, Fargate, Greengrass, Sumerian, Step Functions, Kinesis ... none of these conjure up basic computing concepts.

Why? Why should "Greengrass" be used for IoT?

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Route 53: What port do you use to connect to DNS?

But the rest, I’ve got nothing as far as making the naming conventions make sense.

But honestly it took me about a year to go from not knowing anything about AWS to being sable to hold my own from a development and networking/Devops standpoint with AWS. Almost everything mapped to concepts I had done before - even the IOT stuff from my time developing field service apps for old Windows CE ruggedized devices.

I could basically draw up an architectural diagram of how I would have implemented the same systems today if I had had AWS at my disposal.

Not to mention they have two products named EBS: Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Block Storage. Makes work conversations real fun.
I haven't used Beanstalk in forever, and don't think that it's particularly relevant compared to other alternatives available today, but last time I did, AWS support always abbreviated it to EB when I had to work with them on issues related to it.