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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?

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I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20

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

3/20 and two correct ones were guesses here; I was actually wondering what's wrong with me, asking "Dude, have you ever even seen the AWS console at this point?" (I have in fact stared at it way too much). Goes to show a lot of these icons just aren't very distinctive and don't seem to matter much.

are you saying 420 is reason for not doing well?

They got 4 out of 20 correct on the quiz

420 is a meme name for weed

I think most of us get it, but those sorts of low quality/non-discussion comments are frowned upon at HN.

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".

“Select 4 out of 6” is just as hard as “select 2 out of 6”, at 1:15, so it’s not that shockingly.

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.

I thought I did poorly with my 3/20 as an Associate Solutions Architect.

Holy shit this is hilarious

To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are only relevant 20% of the time. If that.

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.

It’s funny you say that. I work at AWS. The URls for tickets just rolled over to have a new digit this week

Well at least I won't have to open a ticket for that :D

Probably 20% of the services power the other 80% under the hood too.

To be fair, the majority of professional interaction with AWS should be via text interfaces - infrastructure as code, SDKs, commandline - where icons don't matter.

The names aren't often all that much better, of course

Possible according to the infinite monkey theorem.

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