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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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post #122

How do you actually come up with good icons for these things? I can imagine a few for things like sns, sqs, and lambda, but what's the right icon for kinesis?

One issue is the uniformity of the icons, they could have different shapes and other visual cues so they don’t blend into eachother so much

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#132
post #63

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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, we provide a CDK L3 construct that ensures your best practice.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#133
post #78

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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.

Yeah, limiting yourself to minor variations of a 3x3x3 cube is pretty rough. GCP shows you can have strong brand consistency (even a limited color palette) while still having decent illustrations [1]. [1] https://www.turbogeek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/word-...

I didn't expect this when I clicked on the comment thread, but yeah, GCP has the best icons and its design element is the secret hero of the story.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#135
post #129

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It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.

It's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.

Kafka was made at Linkedin and then opensourced in Jan 2011, almost 3 years before AWS Kinesis (Dec 2013).

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#136
post #75

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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

are you saying 420 is reason for not doing well?

They got 4 out of 20 correct on the quiz

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#137
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".)

> Kafka

Same. Though, I forget what it is since I heard about it. Now I think it's funny that it could refer to either cruel bureaucracy or turning into a bug.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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

I’ve heard google has an alpha version of this for internal use only. From time to time they let it run loose to clean up their products.

We were going to adopt it but after internal discussions, we’re worried they’ll euthanize it after 22 months. We’re pivoting.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#139
post #113

For people despairing about their ability to score on this quiz asking such simple things as what color is the S3 icon. The quiz is using the Cloud Formation Designer icons not the ones you see every day in the console or in the icon asset pack from the AWS site you might be using in your architecture diagrams. So unless you spend a load of time using that to build your CFTs rejoice you shouldn't be surprised you're…

Oh, I vaguely remember these icons being used in the UI but now the UI has flat and more brightly coloured icons.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#140
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.

In a war between Man and Machine, this could be a CAPTCHA against humans. The kind that only robots can get right.
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