What is the AWS Management Console? - AWS Management Console
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What is the AWS Management Console?

The AWS Management Console is a web-based application that contains and provides centralized access to all AWS service consoles. You can use the AWS Management Console to search for services, view notifications, access AWS CloudShell, access account and billing information, and customize your general console settings. The home page of the AWS Management Console is called AWS Console Home. From AWS Console Home, you can manage your AWS applications and access all other individual service consoles. You can also customize AWS Console Home to show other helpful information about AWS and your resources by using widgets. You can add, remove, and rearrange widgets such as Recently visited, AWS Health, and more.

Features of AWS Management Console

  • Navigate to AWS service consoles – You can use Unified Navigation to access recently visited service consoles, view and add services to your Favorites list, access your console settings, and access AWS User Notifications.

  • Search for AWS services and other AWS information – use Unified Search to search for AWS services and features, and AWS marketplace products.

  • Customize the console – You can use Unified settings to customize various aspects of the AWS Management Console. This includes the language, default Region, and more.

  • Run CLI commands – AWS CloudShell is accessible directly from the console. You can use CloudShell to run AWS CLI commands against your favorite services.

  • Access all AWS event notifications – You can use the AWS Management Console to access notifications from AWS User Notifications and AWS Health.

  • Customize AWS Console Home – You can completely customize your AWS Console Home experience by using widgets.

  • Create and manage AWS applications – Manage and monitor the cost, health, security posture, and performance of your applications using myApplications in AWS Console Home.

  • Chat with Amazon Q – You can get Generative Artifical Intelligence (AI) assistant powered answers to your AWS service questions directly from the console. You can also get connected with a live agent for additional support.

  • Control AWS account access in your network – You can use AWS Management Console Private Access to limit access to the AWS Management Console to a specified set of known AWS accounts when the traffic originates from within your network.

Individual service consoles

Each AWS service has its own individual service console. These service consoles are separate from the AWS Management Console. Though settings you choose in Unified Settings, such as visual mode and default language, are applied to these consoles. Service consoles offer a wide range of tools for cloud computing, as well as information about your account and about your billing. If you want to know more about a specific service and its console, for example Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, navigate to its console using search box in the navigation bar and access the Amazon EC2 documentation from the AWS Documentation website.

When you navigate to an individual service’s console, you can still access features of the AWS Management Console using Unified Navigation at the top of console. You can leave feedback for an individual service's console by navigating to that console and choosing Feedback in the page's footer.

Acessing the AWS Management Console with mobile devices

The AWS Management Console has been designed to work on tablets as well as other kinds of mobile devices:

  • Horizontal and vertical space is maximized to show more on your screen.

  • Buttons and selectors are larger for a better touch experience.

To access the AWS Management Console on a mobile device, you must use the AWS Console Mobile Application. This app is available for Android and iOS. The Console Mobile Application provides mobile-relevant tasks that are a good companion to the full web experience. For example, you can easily view and manage your existing Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon CloudWatch alarms from your phone. For more information, see What is the AWS Console Mobile Application? in the AWS Console Mobile Application User Guide.

You can download the Console Mobile Application from Amazon Appstore, Google Play, and the iOS App Store.