Since there seems to be a lot of negative sentiment here about the icons, I'd like to offer a different perspective.
While using AWS services and leading huge migration projects, I've never thought to myself: "These icons are terrible and slowing down my progress". As in to say, sure the UX icons are a little wonky, but at the end of the day, do are they really impacting people from getting the value out of the services and using them quickly? Maybe Amazon is partaking in what is often sentiment around here: not optimizing things too soon.
Summary: while icons might be confusing and not great, I find zero impact in me architecting systems and communicating designs.
While using AWS services and leading huge migration projects, I've never thought to myself: "These icons are terrible and slowing down my progress". As in to say, sure the UX icons are a little wonky, but at the end of the day, do are they really impacting people from getting the value out of the services and using them quickly? Maybe Amazon is partaking in what is often sentiment around here: not optimizing things too soon.
Summary: while icons might be confusing and not great, I find zero impact in me architecting systems and communicating designs.