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by pdyck 2214 days ago
Services like S3 are referred to as „object storage“. AWS Lambda is a service for „serverless compute“ or „function as a service“ (although it‘s debatable if these are good names for the concept).

My point is that definitely are named for these concepts but AWS uses brand names which is quite confusing for people who are new to AWS.
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scarface74 2214 days ago
It makes it a lot easier to search for on Google though...
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pas 2214 days ago
Why? They could have simply named them with AWS Serverless, or AWS Compute, or whatever.

Using these brand names might make it easier to evolve them later, or they really wanted nice sounding names because eventually you'd have to write out long phrases with the AWS prefix, and that's probably harder to market.

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llbeansandrice 2214 days ago
> AWS Serverless

Which serverless? ECS Fargate? Lambda? Step Functions?

There are tons of AWS services which are technically "serverless". Even S3 obfuscates away the server.

https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/

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NikolaeVarius 2214 days ago
Los Balancer = HaProxy Serverless
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NikolaeVarius 2214 days ago
Those names are extremely generic and each covers many completely different service offerings.
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