Hilarious quiz. Thanks for the laugh
AWS icon quiz
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They've been tweaking the UI of the AWS console recently at least, but, they still have a loooong way to go.
I was happy that they finally added a simple search tool for their tools on their homepage. It wouldn't be a very sustainable business, but you could make good money selling a chrome extension that cleans up AWS similar to what Reddit Enhancement Suite does.
That might just be the most dangerous extension ever, or at least one that could get very messy very quickly if it was hacked. Or someone would be willing to pay big money to have it subverted, looking at you cryptonuts.
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Yes, Cloudformation is my main tool too. I just simplified my comment. Read it as managed by code, be it CF, python, awscli from shell, and all of it in the end boils down to specific API calls.
The key thing is a repeatable process that's checked in, which pointing and clicking in the console is not.
Not always.
For instance we have a process that sends sns messages for alerts. It’s just as easy to go into the console and subscribe to the sns event notifications (emails and sms).
Second example. I initially configure passwords with CF (of course with parameters that are added when you run it.) It’s easier to go into the console afterwards to change passwords as it would be to update the stack and renter the passwords.
You aren’t going to store passwords in source control anyway.
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For most AWS stuff, "E" stands for "Elastic".
My favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.
ECS is Elastic Container Service.
Which is good, otherwise ECS Fargate wouldn't have made a lot of sense.
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#185I didn’t think I’d do great, but amazingly, I got every single question wrong.
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#186I got 3 right, even though I currently have the AWS console open and was checking every now and then.
The services don't even have consistent icons displayed between them, I tend to think the icons are actually completely meaningless.
Sorry if you worked on these icons I guess.
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#187Aws feels like it was built by a bunch of siloed teams. There's a lot of design inconsistency I notice every time I'm in the console. For example, deleting entities is never consistent. Some just do it, some ask you to type in the name, some as you to type "delete me". Some entities have a name and a description field that are immutable on creation, even though they also have a unique id. I now have drop downs everyw…
You can still have siloed teams, and I think you need them in this case. AWS has many different products and they don't all relate to each other. It sounds like they simply need to adopt some UX/style guides and enforce them across the company.
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#188Aws feels like it was built by a bunch of siloed teams. There's a lot of design inconsistency I notice every time I'm in the console. For example, deleting entities is never consistent. Some just do it, some ask you to type in the name, some as you to type "delete me". Some entities have a name and a description field that are immutable on creation, even though they also have a unique id. I now have drop downs everyw…
Console is just for checking stuff. Real infra is managed by APIs.
That's not accurate. There are some things you cannot even do in the API and it must be done in the console. I agree with others here that you should be using Cloudformation as much as possible, but even that isn't 100% supported and sometimes you need to click around the console to set things up.
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And similarly, Jetbrains. Having the product intitials in the icon is incredibly helpful.
Jetbrains products' icons are OK, but there's clearly a gradual Adobification going on. Their designers recently declared that colored icons were distracting (?) and are currently moving most of the them to gray. Quite confusing when gray usually means disabled.
Oh, let's not confuse the product icons with the in-app icons. I can't believe they're taking color away. It's just stupid.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
The key thing is a repeatable process that's checked in, which pointing and clicking in the console is not.
Not always. For instance we have a process that sends sns messages for alerts. It’s just as easy to go into the console and subscribe to the sns event notifications (emails and sms). Second example. I initially configure passwords with CF (of course with parameters that are added when you run it.) It’s easier to go into the console afterwards to change passwords as it would be to update the stack and renter the passw…
For SNS I'd use the API just to make sure every new team member gets signed up for every appropriate deployment (test, prod, whatever) and every old team member gets removed.
I agree it doesn't add much value for a single user rotating their own password.