HN Explorer

Poll: Is use of AmazonAWS worth hiding?

5 points by robotrout ↗ HN
I am struggling with whether to hide my use of Amazon's fine S3 service by use of a CNAME, on a widget I am designing.

My dilemma is that some of my users might choose to incorporate my widget on secure sites, which means widgetbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.html will be the URL that I tell my users to use.

The other 99% of my users will not be using secure sites, and I imagine some loss of credibility by using the amazonaws.com in my url. Am I crazy?

EDIT: Also, some users (or actually, my users, users) will be able to maximize the widget to the full screen, and have the URL staring them in the face in their browsers address bar. For this reason, I really think I'm losing too much by giving up on using my domain name.

5 comments

[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 34.9 ms ] thread
jacquesm
What makes you think they'll ever notice ? Sure, they'll need the url, but for them to have a value judgment attached to it may be a stretch.

And if they do, consider the 4th option, maybe they'll think you are more serious rather than less for using AWS, after all it has the name 'Amazon' in it, which they will most likely recognize as being more solid than yours.

gsmaverick
If you are on a secure page most browsers will either have a pop-up or a warning about unsecure content on the page.
jacquesm
Not sure if a cname will help you in that case after all the server needs to spit out the right certificate, and the 'reverse' has be working too.
kierank
Twitter don't hide their use and nobody's said anything.
[deleted]
(comment deleted)