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by core-e 2222 days ago
I noticed you conveniently left out Redshift. :) What about Snowball, Chime, Sumarian, and Route 53?
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Somebody else gave the Redshift explanation.

> Snowball

It's like Glacier, but it's smaller and moves more quickly. I think this is one of the dumb-codenames-turned-real that crop up from time to time. Fargate is another notable example.

> Chime

A chime is a notification. That's about all I got.

> Route 53

DNS runs on port 53, Route 66 is a famous highway.

> Sumarian

It's a really niche joke about the novel Snow Crash, that popularized the concept of digital "avatars".

Redshift - Oracle’s brand colors are Black and Red. Redshift was built to help Amazon “shift” from using Oracle.

Route 53 - DNS runs on port 53

Chime - when you want to talk about something “let me Chime in”.

Snowball and Sumerian. I got nothing. I didn’t even know what Sumerian was until I looked it up and I thought I had at least heard of most AWS services.