Searching for products, services, features, and more using Unified Search - Amazon Web Services Management Console
Searching for Amazon productsRefining your searchViewing features of a service
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Searching for products, services, features, and more using Unified Search

The search box in the navigation bar provides a unified search tool for finding Amazon services and features, service documentation, Amazon Web Services Marketplace products, and more. Just enter a few characters to start generating results from all available content types. Each word you enter further refines your results. The available content types include:

  • Services

  • Features

  • Documents

  • Blogs

  • Knowledge Articles

  • Events

  • Tutorials

  • Marketplace

  • Resources

    Note

    You can filter your search results to show only resources by performing a focused search. To perform a focused search, enter /Resources at the beginning of your query in the search bar and choose /Resources from the dropdown menu. Then enter the rest of your query.

Searching for Amazon products

The following procedure details how to search for Amazon products using the search tool.

To search for a service, feature, documentation, or Amazon Web Services Marketplace product

  1. In the search box on the navigation bar of the Amazon Web Services Management Console, enter your query.

  2. Choose any link to navigate to your intended destination.

Tip

You can also use your keyboard to quickly navigate to the top search result. First, press Alt+s (Windows) or Option+s (macOS) to access the search bar. Then start entering your search term. When the intended result appears at the top of the list, press Enter. For example, to quickly navigate to the Amazon EC2 console, enter ec2 and press Enter.

Refining your search

You can refine your search by content type and view additional information about search results.

To refine your search to a specific content type

  1. In the search box on the navigation bar of the Amazon Web Services Management Console, enter your query.

  2. Choose one of the content types next to your search results.

  3. (Optional) To see all results for a specific category:

    1. Choose See all n results by a category heading. A new tab will open showing the results.

  4. (Optional) To view additional information about your search results:

    1. In the search results, hover your cursor over a search result.

    2. View the available additional information.

Viewing features of a service

You can view features of a service from within your search results

To view features of a service

  1. In the search box on the navigation bar of the Amazon Web Services Management Console, enter your query.

  2. In the search results, hover your cursor over a service in Services.

  3. Choose one of the links in Top features.