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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by dijit »

tehbeard wrote: post #60
nikofoto86 wrote: post #22

I actually think that AWS icons are pretty decent. If you’ve used GCP, you know what I’m talking about

Not used GCP... Is it as bad as the "Google" folder on an android?

GCP has a mix of "that makes sense" (scheduler, run, compute, spanner) to "I can see where they were going" (memorystore, speech) with a smidge of: "that doesn't make any sense/just a fun design that isn't meaningful" (anthos).

Lots of icons are dots or squares that are connected, which of course isn't helpful because that's what nodes in a network actually are in all circumstances.

GCP is (un)fortunately saved by it's relatively low product offering (by AWS's standards at least).

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by alexy201 »

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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Traubenfuchs wrote: post #55
hbn wrote: 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.

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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by tristor »

I don't know that I should be angry or relieved that I only got half of them right. I've been working with AWS since it existed.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by giaour »

hughesjj wrote: post #49
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…

I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20

I was the primary maintainer for one of the services they asked about, and I still got that question wrong. 4/20 for me, but three were lucky guesses

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by redserk »

cdchn wrote: post #63
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No but a beta Terraform provider is available. Just don’t forget to import the existing resource lest strange things happen.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by lijok »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #55
hbn wrote: 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.

Can't wait until Corey Quinn finds a way run a container on this one

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by xuhu »

karaterobot wrote: post #57

As a designer, I just want to say that if your instinct is to rag on these symbols for being incomprehensible, go ahead and try your hand at one or two. It may be humbling. Illustrating abstract concepts that are similar to other, related abstract concepts is extremely difficult. Remember that it's got to be legible in a footprint of a couple dozen pixels on a side. When you're done, make sure it isn't close enough t…

Not a fan of either, but Azure icons look like actual things: http://code.benco.io/icon-collection/azure-icons/

The AWS icons seem procedurally generated based on a hash of each concept's name.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by input_sh »

hughesjj wrote: post #49
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…

I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20

3/20 by purely guessing, out of the big 3 cloud providers it's the only one I have no experience with.

Shockingly, one of those I got right was "select 4 out of 6".

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