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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by ceejayoz »

mdaniel wrote: post #18
akira2501 wrote: post #4

The only reason I can play this game is because "Icons with Labels" is impossible to deal with in the AWS console. I _really_ wish I could just set the labels myself. "AWS Simple Email Service." Were you worried I would forget it's an AWS service? Or worried that I wouldn't remember it's simple, or a service? Do you offer any other email service? Can I please just rename the label to "SES"? First world cloud console…

and then there's "flip a coin" about whether it's "AWS Foo" or "Amazon Foo". I think I once read that Amazon Foos were things that were used internally, too, and AWS Foos were things only sold to pay for rocket fuel and yachts (I kid, I kid; paying for all those Graviton fabs is some serious $$$ too)

My favorite is "Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session Manager".

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by mdaniel »

gordian-not wrote: post #6

Sometimes it feels like having 2000 products with obscure names and overlapping responsibilities is the end goal

I hope you got to see when the AWS InfiniDash (meme?hoax?) went around ... good times

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by mdaniel »

ceejayoz wrote: post #21
mdaniel wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and then there's "flip a coin" about whether it's "AWS Foo" or "Amazon Foo". I think I once read that Amazon Foos were things that were used internally, too, and AWS Foos were things only sold to pay for rocket fuel and yachts (I kid, I kid; paying for all those Graviton fabs is some serious $$$ too)

My favorite is "Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session Manager".

You surprised me for a second and I thought you had found an example of where they actually _wrote out_ Amazon Web Services in the title of something and I was going to claim they must get paid by the letter or something, but no, it's just "AWS Systems Manager ..." https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

Still, yes, a good r/TitleGore find there :-D

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by rtkwe »

Where do these icons come from they don't match what's used in the AWS console at all.

So many of these are weird because I mostly know of their icons from the main console page which apparently doesn't match the ones this quiz is pulling from because it said the S3 icon isn't green and the IAM icon is a key. In the console it's green and an ID with a lock icon on it at least for me.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by baz00 »

rtkwe wrote: post #26

Where do these icons come from they don't match what's used in the AWS console at all. So many of these are weird because I mostly know of their icons from the main console page which apparently doesn't match the ones this quiz is pulling from because it said the S3 icon isn't green and the IAM icon is a key. In the console it's green and an ID with a lock icon on it at least for me.

They're used in the architecture diagrams and CloudFormation etc.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by bilalq »

I've contributed and/or led development on at least 4 different AWS consoles and have used AWS every day for the last 10 years, with 8 of those working at AWS. Still only got 6 right on the quiz.

That said, AWS is transitioning away from those 3D logos. I just wish they'd transition away from Amazon vs AWS name prefix confusion. I've read the internal notes on why they do that, but the reasoning never clicked for me and I still have no idea without looking it up.

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