AWS services explained in one line each

Re:AWS services explained in one line each by dodobirdlord on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:39PM (#23313287)

Cognito is an identity service, “incognito” means unknown, “cognito” means known. Polly is a joke about how parrots talk, the service does text-to-speech. Athena is a goddess of wisdom, the service is for querying databases. The name is frequently some sort of silly inside joke. Except Fargate, that name means nothing...

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Re:AWS services explained in one line each by core-e on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:22PM (#23314621)

I noticed you conveniently left out Redshift. :) What about Snowball, Chime, Sumarian, and Route 53?

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Re:AWS services explained in one line each by rantwasp on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:21PM (#23316545)

Here is the redshift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Doppler_effect

It's a tongue in cheek about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Expansion_of_space and how

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Re:AWS services explained in one line each by dodobirdlord on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:00PM (#23318300)

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".

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Re:AWS services explained in one line each by scarface74 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:22PM (#23318423)

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.

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