Getting started with Amazon User Experience Customization - Amazon Web Services Management Console
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Getting started with Amazon User Experience Customization

Administrators can set colors for different Amazon accounts. Account colors make it easy to differentiate between the accounts you're currently signed in to. Organizations can use account color to distinguish between different types of accounts, for example, you can use green for development accounts, yellow for test accounts, and red for production accounts.

Note

Essential features for the Amazon Web Services Management Console, such as Amazon User Experience Customization, Amazon CloudShell, and Amazon Q, require appropriate IAM permissions. Amazon managed policies provide a convenient way to grant these permissions to users and roles used within the Amazon Web Services Management Console. The following managed policies are available for use:

  • AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess

    • For non-administrative users

    • Provides access to basic console features

  • AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess

    • For administrative users

    • Provides access to essential Amazon Web Services Management Console features

    • Allows administrators to configure and customize the Amazon Web Services Management Console for other identities

For more information, see Amazon managed policies for the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

To set an account color

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

  2. On the navigation bar, choose your account name.

  3. Choose Account.

  4. In Account display settings, choose a color.

  5. Choose Update.