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Just curious to understand if there are any logical reasoning behind in naming AWS products and services. For example, it has been named as AWS Lambda and not Amazon Lambda & it is Amazon S3 and not AWS S3.
If you hover over the Products menu in AWS homepage, you can see list of all products and services at a glance prefixed with both 'Amazon' and 'AWS'.
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The pattern is that utility services are prefixed with AWS, while standalone services are prefixed by "Amazon". Services prefixed with AWS typically use other services, for example: AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation launch other services. AWS Lambda is triggered by other services.
The following basic naming and usage conventions apply to using tags with AWS Elemental MediaConnect resources: Each resource can have a maximum of 50 tags. For each resource, each tag key must be unique, and each tag key can have only one value. The maximum tag key length is 128 Unicode characters in UTF-8.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.
At a high level, the AWS business solutions can be broken out into four foundational services: Savings, Security, Compliance and DRaaS Development Operations.
Managed to find an answer on naming analogy for AWS products and services from another similar question posted here. Response provided by a Senior Technical Trainer working at Amazon Web Services.
The pattern is that utility services are prefixed with AWS, while standalone services are prefixed by "Amazon".
Services prefixed with AWS typically use other services, for example:
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation launch other services
• AWS Lambda is triggered by other services
• AWS Data Pipeline moves data between other services
• AWS CloudFormation launches other services
The AWS documentation page is a great reference for determining the official name of a service.
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