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Patrick_Devine on Sept 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Web Services in Plain English

How about "Web File Server"? I think mentioning "FTP" in the "It's like" column is reasonable, but I thought it was confusing in the name.

Goladus on Sept 12, 2015 [–]

Yeah I have no problem with drawing some comparisons to FTP. It's definitely like FTP in the sense that there's this step where you have to get the data you want to deal with then put it back; but that's really where the similarities end.

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