Ansible cloud module names

[Kurt Yoder]

Hello list,

I notice the Rackspace modules are prefixed with "rax". However, other providers are more complicated:

• AWS modules mostly have an "ec2" prefix. Why "ec2", and not "aws"? Why do some AWS modules start with "ec2", but others have no prefix, e.g. "s3"?
• Openstack modules have no consistent prefix at all.

Is this intentional, or the result of organic growth?

[Michael DeHaan]

Mostly because this is how they are done originally, though I don't really think they are wrong.  ec2 is part of AWS, s3 is a different part, route53 is a third part.

aws_ec2_foo could have been a thing, but that's a little verbose.

The easiest thing to do here in the future is probably to add a subcategory for the module docs generator, as we will not be supporting alias names or breaking existing modules.

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