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Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)

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Some of these are clearly deliberate obfuscation. I need something to handle Queues, what should I use? Amazon SQS obviously. Oh cool, what’s that? It’s a Queue service! Oh great, why is called SQS? Simple Queue Service duh! Is there a more complex queuing service? No. There’s only SQS. The acronym is totally useless, tells you nothing beyond it being for Queues and completely obfuscates what’s happening for anyone n…

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Re: Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)

#92
(2015)

rip of other article (https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/) and ancient

Plenty of discussion over the years:

Original 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

2017 where the author repeats that this is old https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442022

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475518

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