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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by taberiand »

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…

To be fair, the majority of professional interaction with AWS should be via text interfaces - infrastructure as code, SDKs, commandline - where icons don't matter.

The names aren't often all that much better, of course

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

8organicbits wrote: post #81
p410n3 wrote: post #14

I have red green color blindness (deuteranopia) and i have no idea if my answer is right or wrong on until i change my monitor settings to high saturation. (I usually turn that off because it messes a lot with other colors)

Does it show which one is correct when you get it wrong? It would be cool to see what all the others were too.

Unhelpfully it does not.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

srvmshr wrote: post #83

I tried my level best and got 2/20. I repeated with random guesses and got 5/20. I have used AWS on-and-off since 2018. AWS icons are next to Egyptian hieroglyphs in difficulty. Google iconography isn't so bad (but bad enough still.)

Agreed - I've been working with AWS almost daily for the last four years and got 4/20.

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Post by brianshaler »

rtkwe wrote: 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…

Thank you. While they're familiar, I couldn't figure out where to go to see these cuboid icon variants. Spent a few minutes clicking around the Console and the AWS web site / marketing pages, and didn't encounter a single one. When I think AWS icons, I only know the AWS Console favicons and thumbnails in Console search results.

I was perplexed when it offered ELB as an answer when I've only known ELB to exist within EC2 and share its icon.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by kretaceous »

Love me some good satire.

I don't work with AWS a lot but I thought I could probably score a few points by following their rules for their color coding: orange for compute services, blue for DB related, green for other service management related and red for storage.

I got 6.

Why tf is Route 53 the same colour as compute services?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by jdlyga »

We are excited to introduce the AWS Elastic Icon Identifier, a service designed to simplify your AWS Management Console navigation by quickly identifying AWS service icons. This service offers Icon Recognition, enabling you to instantly identify an uploaded AWS icon; an Icon Library with a continuously updated collection of AWS service icons; and API Integration, allowing you to programmatically identify AWS icons in your applications. Additionally, it ensures High Availability with extra redundancy layers and built-in Fault Tolerance to handle unforeseen issues without service impact. This not only accelerates the learning curve for new users but also helps experienced users efficiently identify unfamiliar icons or refresh their memory on lesser-used services.

The pricing is designed to be cost-effective for all users, with a Free Tier of 100 icon identifications per month, a Pay-as-you-go plan at $0.01 per icon after the first 100, and a Premium Plan at $10/month for 1000 identifications, with extra identifications at $0.008 per icon. All plans include unlimited access to the Icon Library and API Integration, as well as High Availability and Fault Tolerance features at no additional cost. For more details, visit our Pricing page on the AWS website.

Start simplifying your AWS experience with the Elastic Icon Identifier today!

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by SlightlyLeftPad »

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.

After working solely with AWS for 11+ years I managed to answer 3/20 correctly…What a relief.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by jimt1234 »

jdlyga wrote: post #146

We are excited to introduce the AWS Elastic Icon Identifier, a service designed to simplify your AWS Management Console navigation by quickly identifying AWS service icons. This service offers Icon Recognition, enabling you to instantly identify an uploaded AWS icon; an Icon Library with a continuously updated collection of AWS service icons; and API Integration, allowing you to programmatically identify AWS icons in…

AWS Elastic Icon Identifier is just a fork of Open Icon Identifier. AWS does this shit all the time. LOL

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by boredman »

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…

Possible according to the infinite monkey theorem.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by pst »

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.

But is the icon going to be a syringe, a pill or a tombstone?
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