AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with 'Amazon' vs 'AWS'

Question

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 Amazo

Answer 1

As far as I understand, the prefix AWS is used for PaaS ( Platform as a Service) and prefix Amazon is used for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). The term AWS(Amazon Web Service) is used whenever it is offered in terms of service/platform, where as Amazon is used whenever a hardware resource/infrastructure is provided.

For example: In the product page of AWS site, in compute category the Amazon EC2 is IaaS providing compute capacity where as AWS Elastic BeanStalk is PaaS which is a platform for deploying web services and web-apps/wesites, likewise AWS Lambda is PaaS for server-less computing which lets us run code without provisioning or managing servers. Similarly in Storage category Amazon S3 is an IaaS which provides storage capabilities where as AWS Snownball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud,which is kind of PaaS.

Although this is just a logical assumption, as we never really know about how Amazon has named it's products and services. So please forgive if there are difference of opinions regarding this.