Document history for the Resource Explorer User Guide
The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon Resource Explorer. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | August 15, 2026 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | June 23, 2026 |
Resource Explorer added support for 25 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon Budgets, Amazon Clean Rooms, and Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. | April 27, 2026 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 9 new resources from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. | March 31, 2026 | |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | February 4, 2026 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | December 16, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | November 17, 2025 |
Resource Explorer added support for 47 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon Amplify and Amazon WAFV2. | October 27, 2025 | |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | October 13, 2025 |
Immediate resource discovery feature release | Resource Explorer now provides automatic resource search functionality without requiring
manual setup. When you first access Resource Explorer through the console,
Unified Search, CLI, or API, the service automatically enables search
capabilities based on your IAM permissions. Users with, at minimum, the
permissions in the | October 6, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | September 24, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | September 15, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | The | September 5, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | August 4, 2025 |
Resource Explorer added support for 121 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon MQ and Amazon Shield. | August 4, 2025 | |
Added support for new search query filter operator | Resource Explorer added support for a new | July 31, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | The | July 23, 2025 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | May 7, 2025 |
Resource Explorer added support for 41 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon Device Farm and Amazon Managed Grafana. | May 7, 2025 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 32 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon HealthOmics and Amazon Personalize. | March 21, 2025 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 34 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon IoT FleetWise and Amazon Lightsail. | January 28, 2025 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 29 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon EMR and Amazon MQ. | January 6, 2025 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 59 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon DataSync, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon SageMaker AI. | November 21, 2024 | |
Resource Explorer added new console features including bulk resource actions like managing tags and creating an application, and added new resource details from other Amazon services like Amazon Config and Amazon Security Hub CSPM. | November 20, 2024 | |
Resource Explorer added managed views, allowing other Amazon Web Services services to access resource information indexed by Resource Explorer for your Amazon Web Services account or organization with your consent. | November 8, 2024 | |
Resource Explorer added a new | September 6, 2024 | |
Content organization improvements | Updated topic titles and reorganized content to improve readability and discoverability. | August 29, 2024 |
Customers who are using dual addressing with ASPEN policies containing
| July 15, 2024 | |
Resource Explorer discontinued support for the following three resource types:
| July 9, 2024 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 65 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon Key Management Service, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Fraud Detector. | February 20, 2024 | |
Endpoint update | Amazon Resource Explorer now supports 'amazonaws.com' as the default endpoint. | February 13, 2024 |
Updated managed policy | Resource Explorer added support to view additional resource types. The | December 12, 2023 |
Resource Explorer now supports searching your resources by application. | November 16, 2023 | |
Resource Explorer added support for 86 new resources from Amazon Web Services services including Amazon CloudFormation, Amazon Glue, and Amazon SageMaker AI. | November 15, 2023 | |
Resource Explorer supports multi-account search | You can now use Resource Explorer to search and discover resources across Amazon Web Services accounts within your organization or organizational unit. For more information, see Turning on multi-account search. | November 14, 2023 |
New and updated managed policies | Resource Explorer added support for Amazon Organizations. The Amazon managed policies have been added and updated to grant Resource Explorer access to your organization, organizational structure, accounts, and delegated administrators. | November 14, 2023 |
Added support for new resource types | Resource Explorer added support for Amazon Organizations. The Amazon managed policies have been updated to grant Resource Explorer access to your organization, organizational structure, accounts, and delegated administrators. | November 14, 2023 |
Resource Explorer now supports 12 new resource types from services including Amazon Cognito, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon Elastic File System. | October 18, 2023 | |
Added support for new resource types | Resource Explorer added support for 164 resources. The Amazon managed policies that grant Resource Explorer access to index resources were updated to include those new resource types. | October 17, 2023 |
Resource Explorer is now available in certain opt-in Regions | Customers in BAH and CGK can now opt in to Resource Explorer. | October 5, 2023 |
Resource Explorer added support for resources from the following Amazon Web Services services: Amazon CodeBuild, Amazon CodePipeline, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic File System, Amazon IoT, and Amazon Step Functions. The Amazon managed policies that grant Resource Explorer access to index resources were updated to include those new resource types. | August 1, 2023 | |
Resource Explorer now supports exporting search results to a CSV | You can now export the results of your search on the Resource search page to a CSV-formatted file. | April 4, 2023 |
Use Amazon Q Developer in chat applications to search and discover your Amazon resources | You can now use Amazon Q Developer in chat applications to search your resources using natural language questions. For more information, see Using Amazon Q Developer in chat applications to search for resources. | March 30, 2023 |
Resource Explorer added support for resources from the following Amazon Web Services services: Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Lambda, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). The Amazon managed policies that grant Resource Explorer access to index resources were updated to include those new resource types. | March 7, 2023 | |
Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | December 6, 2022 | |
Resource Explorer adds AWSResourceExplorerFullAccess, AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess, and AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy managed policies. | November 7, 2022 | |
Initial release | Initial release of the Resource Explorer User Guide | November 7, 2022 |