They must have the nicest automatic 3D icon generator out there....
I've always imagined it is like Skyrim character generation and they just hit the randomize button until something "cool and modern-looking" generates
AWS icon quiz
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#72They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png
Works fine, but it does make it harder to pick an icon at a glance since you need to spend those 200ms thinking about what the abbreviation means or what abbreviation you're looking for.
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#73I think the icons actually are cool and futuristic but there are so many of them an average person cannot realistically keep track of them all. I can only assume they're for marketing purposes to show in slide decks or websites.
I also wonder if they painted themselves into a corner early on by having them for their early services. I guess they're a big-boy company and have stopped doing this earlier but who knows.
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#74Truth! 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"
There isn't just one database app. They have Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Neptune, RDS, and Redshift.
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#75It has terrible naming too: a lot of services are acronyms, it makes them difficult to understand for outsiders. Microsoft who is traditionally bad at naming too is surprisingly good at it for its Azure services. App Services, DocumentDB (CosmosDB now), DataLake, ... are more easily remembered than cryptic 3 letters acronyms.
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#76Hosting this quiz on GCP / G Suite ... hilarious :)
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#77Why they don't use normal naming? Like why they don't call the DNS manager "AWS DNS Manager" but "Route 53"?
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#78It’s not jus the icons. It’s the names too since a lot of them are completely unrelated to the product itself. I actually find myself referring to “Amazon Web Services in Plain English” [0] every once in a while. [0]: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
Seconded. This link was huge to me when learning AWS products.
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#79Truth! 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…
And why "Amazon" EC2 but "AWS" Lambda? It throws me off every time I look at an alphabetically sorted list of the services. Granted, Microsoft slaps "Azure" in front of some of their services, but Amazon seems to optimise for having "AWS" and "Amazon" mentioned together as many times as possible, as if we need to be reminded.
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#80They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png
Works fine, but it does make it harder to pick an icon at a glance since you need to spend those 200ms thinking about what the abbreviation means or what abbreviation you're looking for.
Which is why they also have different colors. You just pick the right color.
Same way with color coded money in most non-US countries, you just pick a note based on color.