[pooper]

I appreciate the writer actually taking the time to explain why `george`. I have worked in some projects where some thing-a-majing or another is called `valhalla` or `thor` or something or another but there is no documentation as to why it is called that and the people who were responsible for naming them so have already ridden into the sunset. If I ever meet him, I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

[zdragnar]

The problem is that, in any organization past a few people, someone will eventually wonder if they were the inspiration for a particular name, and not in a good way, or someone might introduce politics or something else divisive.

It's better to have arbitrary names that are memorable in some way but not common enough to be associated with someone living within recent memory.

IMHO, YMMV, yada yada

[ryandrake]

> someone might introduce politics or something else divisive.

Reminds me of a project I was peripherally involved with many moons ago. The codename for the project was "Tardis" from Doctor Who. No problem there. But we ended up having to redo a significant portion of it later, and someone had the bright idea of changing the redo codename to "ReTardis". It was hilariously juvenile at the time, but I could see how, decades later as society gotten less tolerant of that kind of humor, the codename probably has become objectionable.

[striking]

It's the sequel to EU. EU 2.

[philwelch]

But EU5 has been out for over a month now

[AtheistOfFail]

> I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

How? Logically I don't get it.

[silisili]

Not OP... all I could come up with is they didn't remember US east vs east US, so landed on EU2 meaning 'east US 2.'

[hdjrudni]

How does one person talk to another person who named a thing? Well, you can either meet in person and use your mouths, or you can pick up a phone....

(I'm genuinely confused by the "How?" question)

[tomjakubowski]

Eastern US 2

[jpollock]

Consider multinational orgs - "EU2", and collisions with English when speaking "you too".

[khannn]

The only reason I can think of is to not duplicate AWS's "us-east-2" region name