[HN Gopher] AWS Icon Quiz ___________________________________________________________________ AWS Icon Quiz Author : whatsthenews Score : 120 points Date : 2023-08-31 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (awsiconquiz.com) (TXT) w3m dump (awsiconquiz.com) | tristor wrote: | I don't know that I should be angry or relieved that I only got | half of them right. I've been working with AWS since it existed. | baq wrote: | [flagged] | nnx wrote: | AWS should add this to their Certifications offering. | cdchn wrote: | They should add a higher tier and the test is just this. | fjuengermann wrote: | Haha that's impossible. They all look the same | cdchn wrote: | Clearly one icon is six cubes and another is seven. | paxys wrote: | I have not used AWS at that level, but are these actually real? | rtkwe wrote: | Where do these icons come from they don't match what's used in | the AWS console at all. | | So many of these are weird because I mostly know of their icons | from the main console page which apparently doesn't match the | ones this quiz is pulling from because it said the S3 icon isn't | green and the IAM icon is a key. In the console it's green and an | ID with a lock icon on it at least for me. | baz00 wrote: | They're used in the architecture diagrams and CloudFormation | etc. | rtkwe wrote: | Ah ok. I've never used designer much at all so the fact they | didn't match the AWS console version of things was really | confusing. The first question is the 3 overlapping boxes with | a play button which is supposedly the lambda icon but the | console just has an orange box with a boxy white l so I was | never going to get that. | | Wonder if OP could make a version of this that uses the | console icons instead of the designer icons.. | xcskier56 wrote: | I think they may be an older AWS icon set. I was just doing | making an infrastructure diagram in lucid chart and the S3 icon | was red and I recognized it so I got it right, but it doesn't | match whats in the console now | rtkwe wrote: | The other person has it right. It's the icon set used in | Cloudformation Designer. Which doesn't even match their | current icon asset packet for Powerpoint, those generally | seem to use the ones used in the console from my limited | survey. | | https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/ | ajonit wrote: | This reminded me of AWS in plain English | https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ | paulddraper wrote: | > SWF | | > Amazon EC2 Queue | | Nothing to do with EC2 but okay. | | More like Amazon Distributed Functions. | morkalork wrote: | https://i.redd.it/lzveac55vqb61.jpg | mdaniel wrote: | Yeah, ok, thanks "Entra" https://learn.microsoft.com/en- | us/azure/active-directory/fun... :rolling_eyes: | morkalork wrote: | Oh dear! I'm not even an azure user and I know what AD is | and does. Why are they throwing out all their brand | recognition for "Entra"?? | cdchn wrote: | I correct people on this daily just because I think its | hilarious they changed the name. | whatsthenews wrote: | This is a hilarious blog. | | Honestly, it's not just the icons but the names as well. A lot | of them are completely unrelated to the product and make no | sense | taffer wrote: | Some of these names are actually worse. For example they | propose "Unlimited FTP Server" for what is essentially an HTTP- | Blob-Storage. | neoncontrails wrote: | Amazon Drawer of Old Android Devices has a certain ring to it. | AdamH12113 wrote: | It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they | list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names. | | API Gateway | | Should have been called: API Proxy | | It's like: 3Scale | | SNS | | Should have been called: Amazon Messenger | | It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio | | Kinesis | | Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput | | It's like: Kafka | | (It always gets me that someone actually named a large software | product "Kafka".) | commandlinefan wrote: | It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the | "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is | redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't | actually Kafka rebranded. | remus wrote: | I guess the point is not that other companies also have | products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be | familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's | version of Y" is very succinct. | ktm5j wrote: | Most of these are really funny, but I feel like they should | have just left out the reasonable ones. There's enough of them | that it kind of kills the humor after a certain amount of | "actually this one is fine" imo. | ranman wrote: | Now do it with the 2021 icons | GabeIsko wrote: | Didnt they retire these in favor of the vector icons? | tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: | I got 2/20 after randomly guessing. | nathell wrote: | Pretty much the only AWS logo I can recognize immediately is this | one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_Electoral_Action | kodjima33 wrote: | just realized I'm so bad at AWS | srvmshr wrote: | 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.) | cdchn wrote: | This is making me feel like I should turn in my Certified AWS | DevOps Engineer badge. | alexy201 wrote: | The person that designed these icons should be paid less. Maybe | Bezos did it himself | EricButton wrote: | Amazon's strong suit has never been design apparently... | rob74 wrote: | That applies not only to icon design, but also to UX design | and some other types of design too... | p410n3 wrote: | 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) | kreas wrote: | ^+1 | 8organicbits wrote: | Does it show which one is correct when you get it wrong? It | would be cool to see what all the others were too. | jedberg wrote: | I want to take this quiz, but why do I have to click three times | to get to the next question instead of one? | bemusedthrow75 wrote: | Perhaps it's to match the class-leading usability of the AWS | web console. | speedgoose wrote: | It's to mirror the AWS user experience. | EricButton wrote: | Looks like i'm a noob | bilalq wrote: | I've contributed and/or led development on at least 4 different | AWS consoles and have used AWS every day for the last 10 years, | with 8 of those working at AWS. Still only got 6 right on the | quiz. | | That said, AWS is transitioning away from those 3D logos. I just | wish they'd transition away from Amazon vs AWS name prefix | confusion. I've read the internal notes on why they do that, but | the reasoning never clicked for me and I still have no idea | without looking it up. | pests wrote: | Are you allowed to share the reasons for the different name | prefixes? | malfist wrote: | AWS = things that are used with other things. | | Amazon = things that can be used independently. | | I.E, Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS CloudFormation | blandai wrote: | Loll makes me feel like a bad engineer | unregistereddev wrote: | It's possibly a sign that you are a good engineer. If you are | using infrastructure-as-code, whether that is terraform or | cloudformation, you are used to looking at a yaml or json file | that does not include icons. If you have automated everything | to the point that you rarely need to log into the AWS console, | you probably don't regularly see these icons. | marktani wrote: | my score was 5/20, every question in this quiz is uncanny :D | pashabitz wrote: | I hope this is made by an obsessive graphic designer at AWS who's | lost one too many arguments. | rurp wrote: | This was hilarious. Some of descriptions are great. "Dried | arterial blood" is a nice vivid color descriptor. | | It really puts into context how meaningless these icons are. I | log into AWS all the time and did terrible on this quiz (4/20), | despite having seen some of these icons hundreds of times at | least. | bagels wrote: | Should they even have any icons? Most of them don't really convey | meaning, and there are so many, and many similar (rectangular | prisms in different orientations), that it's impossible to | remember them. | dragonwriter wrote: | They need icons so that the utterly incomprehensible | architecture diagrams that mostly would convey little useful | information even if you recognized the symbols drawn by | architects for administrative rather than technical reasons | have the facade of a standardized, consistent language. | jedberg wrote: | I've been an AWS Hero for a decade, and I only got 5 out of 20 | (and I was only sure on 1, the other 4 were guesses). | | Obviously this is a joke to point out how useless the icons are, | but I'd have thought working with them for so long I'd at least | know a few of them. | flying_sheep wrote: | That's why I think Adobe has made the smart move. They simply use | English as the icon, color as the impression. | | You can guess via the English if you are unfamiliar with the | icon. And easy to spot via the color if you already know the | icon. | | Let's say if I forget the characters in the Illustrator icon. But | I can recognize the icon is Illustrator because of its orange | color. | dylan604 wrote: | I think Microsoft was even better, at least on the number of | users that recognized the blue W for making documents the e | icon to get online, etc. That's how my mom did it, but she | would have no idea what Ps, Il, Ae, would mean | globally wrote: | gotta love aws ux | akira2501 wrote: | 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 problems, I guess. | mdaniel wrote: | 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) | paulddraper wrote: | Oddly, https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ | continues that AWS/Amazon schizophrenia. | ceejayoz wrote: | My favorite is "Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session | Manager". | mdaniel wrote: | You surprised me for a second and I thought you had found | an example of where they actually _wrote out_ Amazon Web | Services in the title of something and I was going to claim | they must get paid by the letter or something, but no, it's | just "AWS Systems Manager ..." | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems- | manager/latest/userguide... | | Still, yes, a good r/TitleGore find there :-D | hooverd wrote: | I think a Managed NAT Gateway or two ought to cover those. | dragonwriter wrote: | > Do you offer any other email service | | AWS WorkMail is a (different kind of) email services, and AWS | Simple Notification Service has email delivery functionality. | So, yes? | hooverd wrote: | It's not a real AWS service unless there's a way to run | containers with it. | KrishnaMadala wrote: | Cool quiz feels like it might be a psy op from | https://www.antimetal.com/ | spaidenbeta wrote: | Lol, we use them for our AWS. Sounds like something they would | do | joshuawilde wrote: | Made it about 1 question in before I realized it was over my head | mschuster91 wrote: | Now if yEd had a way to search in the icon library... the way | services are grouped is completely incomprehensible. | scop wrote: | > 5/20 | | I use a variety of AWS services every day. I actually got a | higher score than I was expecting. | baz00 wrote: | 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 the certs eh? | hughesjj wrote: | I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20 | giaour wrote: | I was the primary maintainer for one of the services they | asked about, and I still got that question wrong. 4/20 for | me, but three were lucky guesses | dylan604 wrote: | are you saying 420 is reason for not doing well? | input_sh wrote: | 3/20 by purely guessing, out of the big 3 cloud providers | it's the only one I have no experience with. | | Shockingly, one of those I got right was "select 4 out of 6". | askiiart wrote: | That's almost impressive; you did 3x worse than random! | | Edit: nope, I have no idea. I forgot the number of options | and type of questions varies quite a bit. | [deleted] | paulddraper wrote: | To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are | only relevant 20% of the time. If that. | baz00 wrote: | Worth noting that also from experience that applies to the | amount of effort they put into services. Most of the non-core | ancillary services are buggy garbage. I'm wondering if we're | going to cause an integer overflow on the support ticket | system the way we're going. | alexy201 wrote: | Is this a marketing campaign for Antimetal? If so it's a great | idea | janestevenson80 wrote: | I'm convinced the AWS icons were made by people who don't realize | how helpful names and icons can be for devs | hbn wrote: | 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. | [deleted] | Traubenfuchs wrote: | I sense a business opportunity: Euthanasia as a Service. EaaS. | With an API. | cdchn wrote: | The real question is: can I configure it with a | CloudFormation stack? | redserk wrote: | No but a beta Terraform provider is available. Just don't | forget to import the existing resource lest strange things | happen. | benburleson wrote: | Ahem, did you mean OpenTF? | cdchn wrote: | Terraform doesn't make me want to use EaaS though. | lijok wrote: | Can't wait until Corey Quinn finds a way run a container on | this one | gazarullz wrote: | I've heard google has an alpha version of this for internal | use only. | | From time to time they let it run loose to clean up their | products. | thiht wrote: | What should the icon look like? | archgoon wrote: | [dead] | bemusedthrow75 wrote: | I've got this great idea involving three small floating | boxes. | [deleted] | gordian-not wrote: | Sometimes it feels like having 2000 products with obscure names | and overlapping responsibilities is the end goal | mdaniel wrote: | I hope you got to see when the AWS InfiniDash (meme?hoax?) went | around ... good times | nkcmr wrote: | > Dried arterial blood red | | ... Horrifying | | I got 3/20, because I've never used AWS professionally. | frakt0x90 wrote: | I got 3/20 and use AWS professionally | psanford wrote: | Is there no way to see the correct answers after finishing the | quiz? | nikofoto86 wrote: | I actually think that AWS icons are pretty decent. If you've used | GCP, you know what I'm talking about | tehbeard wrote: | Not used GCP... | | Is it as bad as the "Google" folder on an android? | dijit wrote: | GCP has a mix of "that makes sense" (scheduler, run, compute, | spanner) to "I can see where they were going" (memorystore, | speech) with a _smidge_ of: "that doesn't make any | sense/just a fun design that isn't meaningful" (anthos). | | Lots of icons are dots or squares that are connected, which | of course isn't helpful because that's what nodes in a | network actually _are_ in all circumstances. | | GCP is (un)fortunately saved by it's relatively low product | offering (by AWS's standards at least). | karaterobot wrote: | As a designer, I just want to say that if your instinct is to rag | on these symbols for being incomprehensible, go ahead and try | your hand at one or two. It may be humbling. | | Illustrating abstract concepts that are similar to other, related | abstract concepts is extremely difficult. Remember that it's got | to be legible in a footprint of a couple dozen pixels on a side. | When you're done, make sure it isn't close enough to any other | AWS product symbols that customers would get confused. Also, run | it by a committee of people who aren't designers, and are proud | of that fact. If they are in a senior position, attempt to | integrate their feedback, no matter how idiotic, into your | design, because nobody's going to fight for a little thing like | an icon symbol. | | I stopped making logos, it's a really difficult and thankless | job. Designing apps for complex use cases is way simpler. | xuhu wrote: | Not a fan of either, but Azure icons look like actual things: | http://code.benco.io/icon-collection/azure-icons/ | | The AWS icons seem procedurally generated based on a hash of | each concept's name. | paulddraper wrote: | Yeah, limiting yourself to minor variations of a 3x3x3 cube | is pretty rough. | | GCP does a nice job of strong brand consistency while still | maintaining decent intuition [1]. | | [1] https://www.turbogeek.co.uk/wp- | content/uploads/2019/02/word-... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-31 23:00 UTC)