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They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png
Aws 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…
I actually find myself referring to “Amazon Web Services in Plain English” [0] every once in a while.
Truth! Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be. If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is. If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. If you want something t…
what about calling the database app "database"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In that case, what point is there in having a non-descript icon? Just select a nice font and turn the text itself into a logo...
Because, while I might not remember/recognize all their obscure logos, I actually remember/differentiate between the few frequently-used ones. Also, the logos are color-coded by "service category" if I'm not wrong
Off-topic (and sort of translated):
Salut Virgile, complet de acord cu tine, dar dacă făceau textul colorat în culoarea "service category", viața era mai simplă pentru toată lumea :) (lume mică, domne, uite de cine dai pe net :D)
(The main point of the survey came across very well, though.)
Aws 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.
I don’t think I’ve ever used the CLI to manage infrastructure on AWS.
I usually use the console for one offs. When something needs to be repeatable, I’ll create a Cloud Formation template.
Anything that’s more conplicated, I’ll either use Python directly or create a custom resource that gets called from CF.
Truth! Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be. If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is. If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. If you want something t…
I don't think they have a 'bad icon' problem as much as a 'too many services' problem. I'm not necessarily saying that they need less functionality, just that they need to divide it up into fewer named/iconed chunks of functionality.
I feel like Adobe has a similar problem but handle it much better.
