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What is the Amazon Web Services Management Console?

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

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Features of Amazon Web Services Management Console

Important features of the Amazon Web Services Management Console include the following:

  • Navigate to Amazon 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 Amazon User Notifications.

  • Search for Amazon services and features – use Unified Search to search for Amazon services and features.

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

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

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

  • Chat with Amazon Q – You can get generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered answers to your Amazon Web Services service questions directly from the console. You can also get connected with a live agent for additional support.

Accessing the Amazon Web Services Management Console

You can access the Amazon Web Services Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/.