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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by rtkwe »

baz00 wrote: post #29
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.

Ah ok. I've never used designer much at all so the fact they didn't match the AWS console version of things was really confusing. The first question is the 3 overlapping boxes with a play button which is supposedly the lambda icon but the console just has an orange box with a boxy white λ so I was never going to get that.

Wonder if OP could make a version of this that uses the console icons instead of the designer icons..

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by [deleted] »

baz00 wrote: post #20

Oh hell I have spent the last decade working with AWS and I still have no idea what any of the icons are. They are all complete shit. Literally the worst. To be fair I can't remember half the product names other than the core ones either. Elastic Banana or whatever. Maybe Dynamo Donkey. I just don't know any more. Edit: I'm also an AWS Architect Professional or whatever it's called now. Shows how a monkey can pass th…

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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by pests »

bilalq wrote: post #30

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…

Are you allowed to share the reasons for the different name prefixes?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by bagels »

Should they even have any icons? Most of them don't really convey meaning, and there are so many, and many similar (rectangular prisms in different orientations), that it's impossible to remember them.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by xcskier56 »

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.

I think they may be an older AWS icon set. I was just doing making an infrastructure diagram in lucid chart and the S3 icon was red and I recognized it so I got it right, but it doesn't match whats in the console now

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by dragonwriter »

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…

> Do you offer any other email service

AWS WorkMail is a (different kind of) email services, and AWS Simple Notification Service has email delivery functionality. So, yes?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by hooverd »

dragonwriter wrote: post #36
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…

> Do you offer any other email service AWS WorkMail is a (different kind of) email services, and AWS Simple Notification Service has email delivery functionality. So, yes?

It's not a real AWS service unless there's a way to run containers with it.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by hooverd »

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)

I think a Managed NAT Gateway or two ought to cover those.
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