AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next(object-storage-name-generator.com) |
AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next(object-storage-name-generator.com) |
EMC Q1 (using Dell servers?)
Google P0
iCloud O-1Since my client is coming up on a SAP R/3 to S/4 transition, which is due to complete by 2027 (a real timeline), I have informed my dear colleague, a SAP enterprise architect, of a much simpler way forward that you have suggested. Sadly and disappointingly, my colleague architect has launched into rumbling and mumbling about the business transformation being more important than the technology transition. Outrageous and completely unheard of.
Having not paid attention to this story I didn’t realize they chose R because it was one letter behind S in the alphabet.
If Cloudflare was a smaller company they’d probably get sued pretty fast. That has happened for much sillier and vain reasons. But I doubt there’s much to gain via the courts in the current state of things. This seems to be standard price competition that all commodity like products resort to.
If Cloudflare had an entire AWS-simulation business and was making a clear effort to confuse customers about being "just like AWS, only not Amazon", then that might be an easier case to win, but Cloudflare seems pretty dead-set on being different than AWS (for example, they offer customer support), so that's unlikely.
Amazon might still sue just as saber-rattling, but that would open them up to a SLAPP countersuit, against a party that has repeatedly demonstrated that it is willing to fund lawyers to punish those abusing the legal system — not to mention being mocked around the world for suing over a two character product name with no shared characters.
> Cloudflare seems pretty dead-set on being different
> than AWS (for example, they offer customer support
Assuming you mean the MX-3 (I can't find any reference to such a thing as a Mazda MX-2), it would hopefully have been the other way around -- BMW suing Mazda, since the M3 predates the MX-3 by half a decade:
> M3 models have been produced for every generation of 3 Series since the E30 M3 was introduced in 1986. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M3
> The Mazda MX-3[4] is a four-seat coupé manufactured and marketed by Mazda, introduced at the Geneva Auto Show in March 1991[5] and marketed for model years 1992–1998. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-3
Well, I'm pretty sure THAT'S not a problem they have to worry about any time soon.
Amazon: Simple Storage Solutions, sir.
Judge: Ok, and what does R2 stand for?
CF: Uhhh....it's one less than S3, sir.
Judge: Ok, and what does R2D2 stand for?
Lucas: Why am I here?
"Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle"
"RedShift was apparently named very deliberately as a nod to Oracle’ trademark red branding"
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-reportedly...
These short letter/number sequences aren't it.
Smaller companies than Cloudflare have used similar naming for S3 compatible services without issue, see Backblaze B2
Edit: the site didn't make it, I just think the stylized name was cool.
O for Object and (1) cause it's fast.
Or it would be. I'm not building it.
We went with "R2" because it better reflects the fact that we want it to be S3 minus one thing: egress fees.
IBM
HAL
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FYJ
EXI
DWH
CVG
BUF
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...I used the exact same tagline for a project open sourced in 2019: https://github.com/pachyderm/s2/
So there you go VCs, I can market as well as cloudflare. Money please!
var o=r.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED.ReactCurrentOwner,u=Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty
And this one goes to 11...Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry.
Free Storage!!!!
That increases by 10. I took out the "You Gave Away Too Much Free Storage" which was a -20 :P
"I once worked on the unambiguously named "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005". Yes, it had "Microsoft" and ".NET" in the name twice. When the name was announced we all laughed as we assumed it was a joke. It was not." [1]
[0] https://nitter.net/shanselman/status/1205355248715358215
[1] https://nitter.net/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
But it was interesting to see in the comments that MS actually claimed credit for it:
"It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding"
Sorry, what's that Dory?
It took me a couple comments before that realization though.
If you can laugh at yourself, you can learn and grow. Companies aren't a monolithic hive-mind (even Microsoft!)
I still love that video.
https://devnull-as-a-service.com/one-less-to-go.sh
sudo rm -rf $(sudo find / -type f -print0 | shuf -n1 -z)And back to Mazda, they have a very successful "3" that _could_ be described as an M3. :)
If anything it's nice that there's some consistency between at least a few brands on the numbering - if you see a 3, you'll know it's likely a medium sized car.
Yes, there is no such thing as a "Mazda MX-2", and never was. I went directly to Wikipedia last time, but that has pretty much every other car model that ever existed, so I saw no reason to believe a "Mazda MX-2" ever existed. And now that I've googled for your exact term, here are most of the top hits:
Speculation from 2009 about a coming new model (possibly for 2013) -- which was sparsely reported even at the time, and apparently never materialised (since no actual specifications, prices, tests, or reviews show up in at least the first five pages of Google results):
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mazda/32905/mazda-mx-2-reveale...
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1033621_mazda-working-on...
https://www.drive.com.au/news/2013-mazda-mx-2-rendered-specu...
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/cgi-2013-mazda-mx-2-8195....
https://www.burlappcar.com/2009/06/mazda-mx2-coming-up.html
https://www.tv2.no/a/12383893/ (in Norwegian)
A few auto trading sites that purport to have pages related to it (my guess: from mistyped searches), but which turn out to contain other models (mostly MX-5's, with the odd Mazda 2 sprinkled in):
https://www.gumtree.com/cars/uk/mazda/mazda+mx+2
https://www.newsnow.co.uk/classifieds/cars-vans-for-sale/maz...
https://cars.trovit.co.uk/used-cars/mazda-mx-2
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-autos/mazda-mx-2/k0c216 (in German)
And that's it. So, to sum up:
1) There is no "Mazda MX-2", there never was.
2) The only "noise" here was your typo; if you were talking about actually existing cars, you must obviously have meant the MX-3. You were after all talking about model names clashing with the M 3.
3) This was corrected for in the discussion; what was discussed was your actual point, not the "noise" (your typo).
4) If for some incomprehensible reason you actually meant the non-existent "Mazda MX-2", our point against it stands even firmer than with the MX-3: The BMW M3 would have predated the "MX-2", had it materialised in 2013, by 27 years in stead of merely five. If anyone had been able to sue anyone, it would still have been BMW, not Mazda.
So no, your point doesn't stand.
And I'm utterly baffled: Where are you -- still! -- claiming to have "looked up MX-2" from???
That said, it's famous that there's a very big difference between the different tiers of AWS support. When I say 'tier', I just mean in the sense of how far your query gets escalated, though it's possible that only large clients get to be escalated to the very high tiers. (We were worth billions and spent near enough a million a month, so we were at least a t2.large to them.)
Azure smokes AWS on docs, community, and support. Just my experience...over and over again.
I'm at a huge high profile company where we have dedicated AWS staff. We have a dedicated email address at AWS to reach them. First time I tried to use the email address I got no reply at all. Took a while to figure out it had changed. I had formed my above-stated opinion long before that whilst trying to use various services and referring to their docs and community to navigate all the undocumented and out of date cruft. This is almost a decade now of the same experience.
But you're really not very good at reading, are you? That was not "a page-long proof that BMW was first", it was an at most half-page-long proof that there never was a "Mazda MX2". And you also seem to have missed my question how you still, two days later, claim to have "looked up the MX-2". I've pointed out twice now that there is no such thing, so where did you look that up?
Great. If only their tech stack was at the same level.
In terms of support (filing tickets) we can generally get on a call with AWS in a matter of minutes. If there's one thing that's annoying, is the status page. We'll often get notified of outages by our account rep way before there's anything in the status page.
No joke. Sometimes I appreciate the way Azure has chosen to differentiate itself in terms of developer experience.
Then there are times using it when I want to walk into an ocean.
Interestingly, those times seem to be anytime I have to deal with Application Insights or LogAnalytics. Azure, if anyone working on those two products are reading this, y’all need to go read up on this thing called ‘correlation’ because the Azure native logging and APM is…
whistles
boy.
It’s something. I just love waiting 5-15 minutes just to see a log line, if I even see it at all with how routinely problematic and unstable their logging infrastructure is[1]
[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-monitor-status/...
(We’re already looking to get away from LA though)
Source: I'm from Germany
There's even a small Twitter trend of posting "when you need English to navigate in Moscow". Se. e.g. https://demotos.ru/sites/default/files/caricatures/2019-10-3...
I remember feeling that in English, acronyms are barely used..
I believe you have that inverted.
An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase, and encompasses both initialisms and acronyms. An initialism is pronounced one letter at a time.
Acronyms are a separate special case - an abbreviation that is pronounceable as a word unto itself.
