Supporting unified search in the Amazon Web Services Management Console
The Amazon Web Services Management Console has a search bar at the top of every console page. This provides a unified search experience across all Amazon Web Services. Unified search results can include such things as:
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Amazon Web Service and feature console pages.
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Amazon documentation pages.
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Amazon blog and Knowledge Base articles
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Resources in your accounts — if you follow the steps below.
To see your account's resources in your unified search results, you must perform the following steps. You can do this during initial setup of Amazon Resource Explorer. It all happens automatically if you use the Quick setup option.
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You must create an aggregator index in one Amazon Web Services Region for the Amazon Web Services account.
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You must create a default view in the Amazon Web Services Region that contains the aggregator index.
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You must grant all principals that need to search for resources in the unified search bar permission to search using that default view.
Unified search always uses the default view in the Amazon Web Services Region that contains the aggregator index to perform all searches.