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dbarletttoday at 3:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.


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cpercivatoday at 4:02 PM

Wait, there's an official style guide?

(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)

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georgemcbaytoday at 6:45 PM

> cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians

A little bit of Canadian/non-American English slipped in (eg. enrol, behaviour), which AFAIK would have been flagged for a real Amazon post because as Americans we were brave enough to get rid of the 'U' in a lot of British words, like 'colour' and 'armour'.

But by God, we kept the British 'U' in the word 'glamour'.

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