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by jsheard 540 days ago
How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...
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thaumasiotes 540 days ago
S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".
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eterm 540 days ago
Nickname implies it's unofficial, but S3 is very much the product name too:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

"Simple storage service" is used once. "S3" is used throughout.

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hnlmorg 540 days ago
While you’re technically correct, for all intents and purposes it is called S3 even by AWS themselves.
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anal_reactor 540 days ago
When I was a student we had a Facebook group to share information, and one angry guy ranted that the correct shortening of "Mathematical Analysis" is not, in fact, "anal", as we were used to say
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rswail 539 days ago
and EC2 stands for "Elastic Compute Cloud". but no one remembers that.
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