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This is beautiful, if a bit close to the bone.

> "The AWS poster has led to healthy conversations with my child, especially how to show the green checkmark even when things are not going so well." - Manager

Nice. It's almost enough to bring (laughing) tears to my eyes.

Risky to copyright it to Amazon at the bottom when it's not actually them....begging for a lawyer's call. Hilarious, though.

> "My child was a huge fuck up but with the help of the AWS poster they're well on their way to a successful life of getting paged at 3AM because the web team can't write a stable service." - Parent at YC Company

We are tremendously brave

And understand lock tight affirmative defenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Not for false attribution of authorship.

I'm pretty sure it's covered as parody, otherwise every skit comedy show ever would have been sued out of existence.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125

> "If your kids don't start learning the AWS Dashboard now, they'll be in your basement until they are 35."

Mastering even one of AWS services is mission impossible, due to their awesome, so-easy-to-understand, state of the art documentation. I think we can all go back to our parent's basement.

Their documentation is always so up-to-date, and easy to discover too! I've never once searched for something, only to stumble onto a page of docs that's 3 years old and no longer relevant. Nope!

TBF, AWS documentation is way better than 95% of open-source projects.

And infinitely more expensive

At least with open source projects you can dig into the code for yourself and see WTF you need to do.

They take the most direct way of explaining things too, instead of always going in a roundabout way. Their design decisions do not leave anything to be desired and you're never left scratching your head as to why anyone would ever build something this way especially when there are dozens, dozens of people asking for it to work the way any sane human being would think it should work. Great for kids!

AWS is sophisticated and comprehensive, and I think the documentation is excellent.

IAM is perhaps the hardest area to get your head around but everything else I've use is very well documented.

Agreed. But as an exception, I was totally surprised to find how good the aws cloudformation doc's are. Hilariously they are now my starting point for understanding the other aws APIs.

The irony is that something like this is probably coming one day - it seems that many April Fools jokes are only a step away from reality.

What better way to get kids hooked on AWS early than to make it free for high school kids?

They're already ahead of you:

https://education.github.com/pack

As a high school kid, I'm hooked on digital ocean and azure because the github student pack gives me free credits ($25 a month on azure as long as I'm a student, and $50 credit on DO, which works out to be 10 free months on their $5 option). AWS is probably too late in that regard.

I know this is a joke but it would be interesting for AWS to introduce learning material targeted at high schoolers (setup a Minecraft server).

> root@s1:~$ host 54.235.210.130

> 130.210.235.54.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-54-235-210-130.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

Nice.

I thought I was sick of April Fools' Day jokes, but you got me laughing. TY

Agree, really funny. Especially the "Parent at YC company" quote.

I'm on AEDST, was paying attention yesterday but I missed a beat when I saw this today (April 2nd). These things are really stretching out.

You can tell it's fake because the error pages are JSON rather than XML.

This is dark comedy from Amazon. I like it. Not campy. Pornhub apparently had a real good April Fools too.

Well done.

n/m. Doesn't look like it's done by amazon.

LOL, though the services selection screen on the dashboard has changed to a monochromatic one now, with line icons and all services categorised by operational type. The depicted poster is the older AWS dashboard, no?

It's missing baby's first fake dashboard.

It's... actually right in there? Although not being Amazon's creation kinda diminishes it.

I'm confused with the AWS service names. I'll be jealous of my kids start learning about these names so early on.

I'm getting 404s on all but the home page. Part of the joke?

Hmm, works for me. I just ordered one. The price is pretty reasonable. Maybe try emailing support?

Must be nap time at daycare

I bet you could sell a few hundred $40 fancy printed posters.

I want one of these for ME...

It makes me ill every time I look at the thing.

> Happy Dads

Kevin and Kyle, really???

p.s. Fuck you for your tiny brigade of down votes

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