Decide on Namespace Abbreviation
Using a common prefix for all resource names will help establish a consistent naming convention. Certain resources in AWS are globally unique (e.g. for all customers). In order to maintain an (optimistically) unique naming convention, prefixing all resources with a namespace goes a long way to ensuring uniqueness.
Shorter the better. Some AWS resource names like S3 bucket names and Elasticache Redis names are restricted to something like 65 characters.
We recommend a namespace prefix of 2-4 characters. The longer, the more optimistic we can be about avoiding collisions with other global resources in AWS.
Some strategies we’ve seen is removing all vowels from your company name, or taking the initials for longer company names.
Examples
- Intel
intlggl- Cloud Posse
cpco
It is advised to keep the namespace as short as possible (< 5 chars) because of resources with low max character limits AWS Resources Limitations