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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cperciva 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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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dbarlett 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).

	▲	cperciva 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, I was being facetious. I'm pretty sure Jeff mentioned needing to spend time writing a style guide when he started having other Amazonians write posts for "his" blog. As a non-Amazonian I've never seen it, of course.

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georgemcbay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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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cperciva 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I was aware of those... but I just couldn't bring myself to write American, especially in the current political climate. You can consider those a non-tariff trade barrier.

	▲	georgemcbay an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's entirely fair. As a heavily disaffected American (who still can't wrap his head around the fact that we let this happen twice) I support any form of protest against us.