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用大白话解释 Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services in Plain English
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这篇文章用通俗且略带幽默的语言解释 Amazon Web Services 众多服务的用途，把令人困惑的服务名和实际功能对应起来，帮助读者快速建立对 AWS 产品版图的整体认识。作者最初是为身边开发者朋友解释 AWS 命名而写，后来也补充了部分更深入的服务介绍。
为什么经久不衰：AWS 服务名晦涩且数量不断膨胀，这种平实、带类比的服务地图能帮新手少走弯路，因此多年间反复被开发者分享。
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AWS 服务多且命名晦涩，导致用户懒得探索，营销也做得差。
令人惊叹的是亚马逊提供的服务数量。每次看 AWS 控制台，看到一堆命名糟糕的服务，我就想“等处理完当前登录 AWS 要解决的问题，也许我会去弄清楚其他东西是什么”。但我从来没这么做，因为有更多事要处理，而且 AWS 不把这些弄易懂，你就不去费心。现在我知道 AWS 其实有一些很有用的东西，以及我从未考虑用亚马逊做的事，比如视频处理（Elastic Transcoder）、源码控制（CodeCommit）和 OAuth 即服务（Cognito）。他们似乎不擅长营销。举个例子：搜索“source code repository online”，为什么 CodeCommit 不在搜索结果第一页？
junto查看英文原文
What's amazing is the amount of services Amazon offers. Whenever I look at my AWS console I see these reems of badly named services and I think to myself "after I've dealt with the current problem for which I've logged in AWS, I might get to figure out what all that other stuff actually is". However, I never do because there is more stuff to take care of, and since AWS doesn't make this easy to understand, you just don't bother. Now I know that AWS actually has some really useful stuff, and for things I would never have considered using Amazon for, like video processing (Elastic Transcoder), source control (CodeCommit) and OAuth as a service (Cognito). They just seem to be bad at marketing their stuff. Here's an example: https://www.google.de/search?q=source+code+repository+online&rct=j Why isn't CodeCommit here on the first page of the search results?
有人把这份解释做成脚本，直接显示在 AWS 控制台里。
喜欢！太喜欢了，我把它做成了 Tampermonkey 脚本，现在我的 Amazon 仪表盘看起来就像截图那样。
hopeless查看英文原文
Love this! Loved it so much I made it into a tampermonkey script: https://gist.github.com/ideasasylum/2d7518611ffaacbc5061 So now my Amazon dashboard looks like: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/iko1p8jdwdvjpaq/2015-09-11%20at%2016.08.png
作者说明文章年代和幽默风格引发的争议，并强调目标是帮人入门 AWS。
作者在此：这篇文章有点旧了，我没有加入 AWS 此后发布的一些新服务。每次这个列表出现，总有一群人不太喜欢它试图带点幽默（整个概念始于我和开发者朋友开玩笑说这些名字有多晦涩，所以我不知道该怎么办）。我做过几处实质性修改，删掉了一些搞笑句子，以便更好地解释功能和工作原理。我也开始为部分服务写更深入的文章（比如讨论 AWS Bucket 时，把亚马逊 CTO 比作《28 天后》里的角色）。我有时想把它做成电子书，但总有更有趣的事要做。感谢所有喜欢它、分享它，并希望借此迈出折腾 AWS 第一步的人。
michaelbuckbee查看英文原文
Hey, Author here. This is old and I haven't added some of the new services that AWS has released since I first wrote it. Whenever this list comes up there's generally a group of people that dislike it for trying to be at least mildly humorous (The whole concept for it started with my developer friends and I joking about some of the names and how opaque they were, so not sure what I'm supposed to do). There were a couple substantial edits I made to it where a few funny lines were cut in favor of better explaining what/how something worked. I also started fleshing out some of the services with slightly more in-depth articles about them (such as this discussion of AWS Buckets where I compare Amazon's CTO to a character from 28 Days Later - https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-s3-buckets-of-objects I've sometimes thought that I should try and make it into an ebook or something, but there's always been something more interesting to work on. Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed it, shared it with their friends and hopefully took their first steps to messing around with AWS.
S3 类比成 FTP 不准确，称“文件存储”更合适。
把 S3 叫“FTP”有点误导，我会叫它“文件存储”，然后沿着 FTP 的思路去解释。
beefsack查看英文原文
Calling S3 "FTP" is a bit misleading, I would have just called it "File Storage" and explained it along the lines of FTP instead.
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