View a markdown version of this page

Supporting Unified Search in the Amazon Web Services Management Console - Amazon Resource Explorer
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

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 services. Unified Search results can include such things as:

  • Amazon Web Services service and feature console pages.

  • Amazon documentation pages.

  • Amazon blog and Knowledge Base articles

  • Resources in your accounts — if have at minimum read-only access.

The account resources you can view in your Unified Search results depend on the permissions assigned to you.

  • Partial Regional results: With, at minimum, the permissions in the AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess managed policy, you can can immediately search all tagged resources and supported untagged resources created after the immediate resource discovery release in a Region.

  • Full Regional results: With at minimum, the permissions in the AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess managed policy and the iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole permission, you can search full results, including all tagged and untagged resources with ongoing automatic updates and historical backfill, in a Region.

  • Full cross-Region results: If you create an aggregator index, cross-Region results are available in Unified Search.

Unified Search always uses the default view in the Amazon Web Services Region that contains the aggregator index to perform all searches when present.

For more information about resourcer views, see Permission tiers and user experiences.