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by ignoramous 2148 days ago
Fun fact: Amazon DynamoDB was codenamed Big Bird, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21695147

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Yes, as the rest of the AWS database services it used Sesame street name. E.g. Elmo was Elastic Cache.

Not flying was a joke from the early design period, I heard. At the end it took off pretty well.