Frustrating for the beginning developer , I could not even clearly see if they had an in-house service ,for image hosting , or is images3 their brand or 3rd party ? . . . !!
Amazon Web Services in Plain English
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#92It took me forever to understand what each services aim to do. Like I could have literally been a better programmer by spending all the time learning algorithms instead of figuring out what each of the aws services do. I wish I've had access to this post before. I like the services they offer, I just really hate the names they gave it. Funny enough, Jeff Bezos said in an interview that names of a product is important…
You've got a nasty shock coming then, you'll spend far more time scouring badly written documentation about something that is supposedly simple but just doesn't work and once you've got working you'll never, ever use again until you've forgotten everything and then you need to set it up again and you'll have to go through the whole soul destroying process again but the documentation you find is now out of date, why-g…
Now re-read your first paragraph in light of the second one.
Sometimes, it really is easier to just implement something your self than go through the "soul destroying process" of figuring out how to correctly set up and configure a library, framework, or piece of open source infrastructure.
Not an algorithm, but it can be a lot easier to write your own SQL, for example, than setting up and configuring Spring and Hibernate. (Talk about soul destroying. Yes, I am a Java developer, why do you ask?)
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#94I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology.
Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Cloudfront is? Its like insisting Toyota call the Camry the Toyota Mid Size Car.
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#95Lambdas are missing
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#96I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology. Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Clou…
What differentiates S3 from FTP, WebDAV, or other file transfer technologies?
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#97Hey HN, I wrote this, thanks for all the feedback. In particular if I've mischaracterized the functionality of a service or you see something that's really off please email me at mike@expeditedssl.com or just tell me here and I'll fix it.
Cognito is probably more like "oauth and backends for your apps"
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#98I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology. Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Clou…
Think you took this waaay took seriously ;)
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#99I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology. Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Clou…
I believe the author was making the point that the names are overly descriptive ("Elastic Compute Cloud" -- not at all innaccurate, but not easy to grok; the less descriptive "Amazon Virtual Servers" is easier for a newbie to recognise and intuitively understand).
Like most entries on the list, Amazon S3 _is_ a new concept but try explaining it to somebody without mentioning FTP -- you'll see what I mean.
What was that quote about the only hard problems in Computer Science?
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#100I can't agree. This is like all those people who wasted money buying shop.com, and tv.com, when all the recognition is in ebay.com and youtube.com. If you listen to people talk about cloud services they say 'competitor-X's S3 clone', AWS owns the terminology. Also, S3 is NOT some ftp service, it is a new concept. And why should they call Cloudfront instead Amazon CDN? Anyone using it knows what a CDN is and what Clou…
What differentiates S3 from FTP, WebDAV, or other file transfer technologies?
Wow really? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/
Replication, versioning, security, life-cycle management, events to name a few.