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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#63
post #47

If you pass this, a team of medical professionals will be sent to your home to peacefully euthanize you, as it is the only ethical choice to end your suffering.

I sense a business opportunity: Euthanasia as a Service. EaaS. With an API.

The real question is: can I configure it with a CloudFormation stack?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#64
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…

To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are only relevant 20% of the time. If that.

Worth noting that also from experience that applies to the amount of effort they put into services. Most of the non-core ancillary services are buggy garbage. I'm wondering if we're going to cause an integer overflow on the support ticket system the way we're going.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#66
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://i.redd.it/lzveac55vqb61.jpg

Yeah, ok, thanks "Entra" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fun... :rolling_eyes:

I correct people on this daily just because I think its hilarious they changed the name.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#69
post #10

This reminded me of AWS in plain English https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names.

API Gateway

Should have been called: API Proxy

It's like: 3Scale

SNS

Should have been called: Amazon Messenger

It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio

Kinesis

Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput

It's like: Kafka

(It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#70

The person that designed these icons should be paid less. Maybe Bezos did it himself

Amazon's strong suit has never been design apparently...

That applies not only to icon design, but also to UX design and some other types of design too...
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