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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 Amazon service consoles. You can use 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.

Features of Amazon Web Services Management Console

  • 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 Artifical Intelligence (AI) assistant powered answers to your Amazon Web Service questions directly from the console. You can also get connected with a live agent for additional support.

Individual service consoles

Each Amazon service has its own individual service console. These service consoles are separate from the Amazon Web Services 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 Amazon Documentation website.

When you navigate to an individual service’s console, you can still access features of the Amazon Web Services 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 Amazon Web Services Management Console with mobile devices

The Amazon Web Services 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 Amazon Web Services Management Console on a mobile device, you must use the Amazon 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 Amazon Console Mobile Application? in the Amazon Console Mobile Application User Guide.

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