[AdamH12113]

It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names.

API Gateway

Should have been called: API Proxy

It's like: 3Scale

SNS

Should have been called: Amazon Messenger

It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio

Kinesis

Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput

It's like: Kafka

(It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)

[commandlinefan]

It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.

[hiyer]

It's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.

[fouc]

Kafka was made at Linkedin and then opensourced in Jan 2011, almost 3 years before AWS Kinesis (Dec 2013).

[jolux]

Pretty sure it's not Kafka. Kafka is way more complicated than Kinesis is and has a completely different API.

[remus]

I guess the point is not that other companies also have products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's version of Y" is very succinct.

[extraduder_ire]

> Kafka

Same. Though, I forget what it is since I heard about it. Now I think it's funny that it could refer to either cruel bureaucracy or turning into a bug.