Supporting Unified Search in the AWS Management Console - AWS Resource Explorer

Supporting Unified Search in the AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console has a search bar at the top of every console page. This provides a Unified Search experience across all AWS services. Unified Search results can include such things as:

  • AWS service and feature console pages.

  • AWS documentation pages.

  • AWS 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 AWS Region that contains the aggregator index to perform all searches when present.

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