Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) uniquely identify AWS resources. To learn about ARNs and ARN formats, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces and ARN Formats.
Note
In order to obtain details about a resource from its ARN, you must have access to the account that created the resource.
There is no direct path in AWS to look up all resource details from the resource ARN, because services have multiple resource types with various related information. If you have the ARN for a resource, you can determine:
The related AWS service (the third ARN segment) tells you what AWS console to look at to find the resource
The resource ID (the sixth or seventh ARN segment) confirms that you've found the right resource
Or you can look for the AWS CLI commands available for that service in the AWS CLI Command Reference for information about obtaining details about the resource.
For example, from the following ARN, you can determine that the service is lambda, the account is 123456789012, the
resource type is function, and the name of the function is TestFunction.
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:TestFunctionFrom this, you can review the
AWS CLI documentation for the Lambda service
to learn how more details can be retrieved with various commands, such as get-function and get-function-configuration.
For example, you can use the following commands to get more information about a Lambda function if you have its name or ARN:
aws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name TestFunctionaws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:TestFunction