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		RossM on Aug 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS icon quiz My favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.

paulddraper on Aug 7, 2018 | [–]

ECS is Elastic Container Service.

Which is good, otherwise ECS Fargate wouldn't have made a lot of sense.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

jordigh on Aug 6, 2018 | [–]

I always thought it should have become E3CS. I recall there's some old lisp manual that followed this kind of naming scheme.

nhumrich on Aug 6, 2018 | [–]

EC3S

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