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#151
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.

Glad I’m not alone. Been using AWS since like 2009 and I got basically everything wrong.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#152
post #63

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?

Kind of. It's only supported via an embedded Lambda code block written in a version of NodeJS that will expire in about two months.

Also, please exercise caution with your targets file. We have had a few customers complain that it's easy to mix up your targets list with a customer database dump in S3, in which case it will alphabetically and systematically begin killing them off. This is particularly bad as there's a delay before each transaction hits the AWS billing API, which may result in unusually high costs for the month and/or delays until your bill warning alerts fire.

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#153
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?

much like comment elsewhere in this thread about Adobe's products, I bet one would get pretty far just using the initialisms for the service and then no one has to spend their precious braincells trying to map someone's fever dream icons for Iot-Blockchain-Whatever down to some triangles ______ | IAM | ------- ______ | EKS | -------

Let's also pick some broad high level categories and vary the border design and color too. Boom. Instantly better.

Someone should make a Chrome plug in for this...

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#155

>Your Final Score Was: 4/20 Skill Level: Noob What do people actually think of this UI? These icons give a futuristic but also depressing look at the same time.

Congrats, you just described Amazon as a whole. If anything, it is art imitating life.

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#156
It definitely feels like Amazon had some intern project that generated 'spatial catpchas' (prove you are human by picking the stacked blue boxes) and decided to re-use it for every icon.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#157
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 thought I did poorly with my 3/20 as an Associate Solutions Architect.

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#158
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…

>Premium Plan at $10/month for 1000 identifications

Is this really an Elastic service?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#159
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…

What about SQS and Step Function integrations? I need to integrate this into my production workflows ASAP to meet my quarterly targets.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

#160
post #18

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)

AWS ___ ones can only be used with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. Amazon ___ can be used as a standalone service.

Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon Chime etc. vs AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeCommit etc.

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