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		portentint on Aug 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Glacier Worst. name. ever.

milesokeefe on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

How so? Doesn't it represent that your data is safe, as it is "frozen", and slow to retrieve like a glacier?

talaketu on Aug 22, 2012 | [–]

I like the name too. An accreting mountain of preserved data.

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