Minigame: Superhero or AWS service?
Monday, 9th March 2026
1 min read
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a global load balancer?
Below is a list of names. Your task is to try and guess if it’s a name of an AWS service or a superhero. Good luck and no cheating.
- Athena
- Redshift
- Red Star
- CloudTrail
- Timestream
- Monitron
- Moondragon
- CloudFront
- Roadblock
- Cognito
- Sub-mariner
- Ganymede
- RoboRunner
- X-23
- X-Ray
- Lightsail
- Heavy Mettle
- Powerhouse
The answers
Pens down, let’s see which is which.
- AWS. Athena is a service for analysing data stored in S3 files, using SQL.
- AWS. It’s a tool for “Business Intelligence”
- Superhero. New Teen Titans #1
- AWS. CloudTrail is the audit log system.
- AWS. Time-series database
- AWS. Some machine learning tool to predict machine failures.
- Superhero. Iron Man #35
- AWS. Once again sorry. This is a content delivery network like Akamai.
- Superhero. G.I. Joe.
- AWS. Something to do with identity management.
- Superhero. Marvel comics #1.
- Superhero. Silver Surfer Vol 3, #74.
- AWS. Automated robot fleet manager.
- Superhero. NYX #3.
- AWS. Sorry to disappoint you. It’s a debugger.
- AWS. Virtual servers.
- Superhero. Damage Control Vol 3, #1.
- Superhero. Image Comics
There wasn’t really anything smart to say here. I just thought it was very funny that AWS pick some rather esoteric names for their services I guess.