It does help, there are some early decisions that were made pretty well (the first or second time, at least).
Oracle's EC2 is called "compute instances", S3 "object storage", SES "email delivery", Lambda "functions" etc.
And object storage could have been Casper, load balancer Flamingo, or data transfer Rhino.
Re:AWS services explained in one line each
by scarface74 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:09PM
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And then I’m stuck with the 4th (?) place cloud provider with a horrible reputation. Choosing Oracle definitely would violate the CYA rule - “No one ever got fired for choosing $what_everyone_else_chooses”. I would be safer choosing Azure or even GCP.
Re:AWS services explained in one line each
by lucianf on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:55AM
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Er, I'd argue that aiming for safety and/or following the crowd aren't really the ingredients of a sound decision making process. On that basis no challenger would ever stand a chance.
Re:AWS services explained in one line each
by scarface74 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:10AM
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That’s not my problem. Everyone looks out for their own self interest. Let’s say that OCI and AWS both statistically had the same uptime. If AWS went down for a day no one is going to question you as CTO for choosing AWS, besides you’re in the same boat as everyone else. If Oracle Cloud went down, everyone is going to be questioning your decision.
But, the saying initially was about IBM. The CTOs in the 60s and 70s who chose IBM instead of one of their competitors in hindsight made a good decision. You can still buy hardware from IBM today that can run COBOL programs written thirty to forty years ago. All of IBMs competitors are long dead.
From a recruitment standpoint, you can easily find someone who knows or wants to learn AWS or Azure - Oracle Cloud - not so much.
Some of the "WTF, how did they come up with that name" with AWS comes entirely down to the public name being the internal project name, e.g. Snowball. Various engineers and managers have facepalmed hard when marketing decided to go with the easiest option and use that name rather than come up with something meaningful.