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> PS Would accepting the hyphen actually destroy your database?

IDK but every time I programmatically create an AWS resource, I have to go crawling through masses of disorganized documentation to see what character substitutions to make.

Hyphens do destroy AWS's database. :shrug:

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RDS databases only allow alphanumic names -- no hyphens, underscores, spaces, etc. Even though it's a small thing, it's an absurdly bad user experience to have to enter the exact same name two or three times spelled differently just to set up some basic AWS infra.

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