When you have huge vision, goals, extensive dedication towards whatever your tasks/schedule, majority of the people, overlook into the minute details, which would be quite an essential & a life saver as well.

Well, in this blog post, we will see few things from AWS Management Console, that are readily available for use but sometimes or some of them just realize the existence !!

Swift Fact #1

Let us say, you have AWS Management Console access and you access services as per your requirement. Either you get into the services' console via "Recent" or "Typing the AWS Service" name in the "Search" box

Did you know, we can mark as 'Favourite' and get them placed as icons on top of the AWS Management console and ready for us to access easily. Services, thus marked as 'Favourite' are also available under 'Favourites' menu

Swift Fact #2

Have you ever needed to do some clean up, general scripting, check our repo, a interface with basics installed(like npm, pip) or a platform to run CLI commands not just AWS CLI, but ECS CLI, SAM CLI, as well?

Well, then use "AWS Cloud Shell" readily available for to be accessed & started from console

Benefits of using AWS Cloud shell are

1) No pricing attached for using AWS Cloud Shell
2) No resources required to be up & running to use this shell

Swift Fact #3

There will be times when you need to talk to team in AWS, need some technical expertise or advice on your use case or so. In such cases, the support centre menu is the centralized location to access point of contacts for People & Resources. Let us see how !!

Support Center

From the above screen shot, you can see "Support Center" options and in order to raise a request or concern regarding your accounts' billing or technical glitch, by selecting appropriate case, as in below screen shot.

Team will reach out either online chat, via email or via phone as per your selection. Just keep watching this tab/space for further updates on the case/ticket raised with AWS.

Reach out to AWS Experts/SMEs

If you have a project or use case, need assistance or expert opinion on that, then reach out to pool of AWS Certified pool of experts by posting the details of your question, requirement in AWS IQ platform link and get responses from SMEs & experts in any domain of interest

Technical Guidance

Irrespective of your cloud status, your code, service usage, application evolution will have errors unresolved, integration issues, services feature usage or implementation errors, reach out to team AWS for tested, validated answers to any of your questions, classified accordingly

AWS re:post is a platform to discuss technical or service related doubts/queries/integration issues/errors and resolution, which are authorized & validated responses that are reliable

Resources to look for

You can google & reach to AWS Documentation but yet can access Resources documentation, training or Resource centre from main "Support" Menu

Feedback to AWS

Finally, if you have feedback to AWS on issues/facts related to AWS feature, account billing or UI related suggestions, reviews, remarks, you can pass it on to TEAM AWS by filling the "Feedback Form" (refer below)

Swift Fact #4

Did you know that you can change "AWS Management console" text from English to a language of your choice?

Visual settings to view in 'Dark' or 'Light' can also be set from above options

Swift Fact #5

Applications, users or usage will have to tracked & notified to teams/users, but there could be varied level of notifications delivered to chats or mobiles or emails. But have them all displayed under one window, under "Notifications" tab

Just not notifications but cloud users can see "Health of Services" issues & updates, as well. How comforting is that to see notifications & health updates all in one tab of report?

I believe that at least one among the above features will be of help to people using AWS Management Console. Good Luck !!