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Today, AWS announces the general availability of account color settings in AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. AWS customers now have an easy way to identify their accounts at a glance. Using the account color setting, account admins can assign a color to their AWS account (such as red for production accounts or yellow for testing accounts) that appears in the Console's navigation bar for all authorized users in that account, enabling quick visual identification of different accounts. AWS customers manage multiple accounts to separate their workloads, such as maintaining distinct accounts for development and production environments or for different business units. Previously, users had to rely on account numbers to identify accounts. With this new feature, users with admin privileges can assign colors to AWS accounts, enabling all authorized users to quickly identify the account they want to operate on through the colored navigation bar. When signing in to the AWS Console, users see a default grey color in the navigation bar. Users with admin privileges can change this color through the 'Account' option in the navigation bar's account menu, on the top right of the page. Once the color is set, all users with proper permissions can see it. To view the account color, users need to be assigned permissions using the AWS managed policy AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess or the custom permission uxc:getaccountcolor. To learn more about account colors, click here. To get started with setting account color, click here.

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and depth of AWS in one step, with no migration required.

Now available in Preview, the visual update in the AWS Management Console helps customers scan content, focus on the key information, and find what they are looking for more effectively, while preserving the familiar and consistent experience. The new, modern layout also provides easy access to contextual tools. Customers now benefit from optimized information density that maximizes available content on screen, allowing them to see more content at a glance. Thanks to a reduced visual complexity, crisper styles and improved use of color, the experience is more intuitive, readable, and efficient. We modernized the interface, with rounder shapes and a new family of illustrations, complemented by added motion to bring moments of delight. While introducing these visual enhancements, we continue to offer a predictable experience that adheres to the highest accessibility standards. The visual update is available in selected consoles across all AWS Regions, with the latest version of Cloudscape Design System. We will be extending the update across all services. Visit the AWS Management Console to experience the visual update.

Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one account sign-in at a time, and customers used mechanism such as signing-in accounts in different browsers or installing third-party browser plugins to access multiple accounts in different browsers. Using multi-session capability in the AWS Console, customers can sign-in to their different AWS accounts and manage their resources in a single browser. Multi-session support is available in Commercial Regions. Try it today by signing in to the AWS Console, selecting the account menu, and selecting “Turn on multi-session”. You can opt out at any time from the account menu. Visit AWS Console documentation to learn more.

Today, AWS announces the addition of AWS Local Zones to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console, providing a unified experience across AWS global infrastructure. AWS Local Zones now appear alongside AWS Regions in the Console's top navigation, making it easier for customers to quickly navigate to the Console page for managing their resources in AWS Local Zones. Now, when customers select the Local Zones tab in the Region selector, they will see all opted-in AWS Local Zones in one place. Clicking on an AWS Local Zone takes customers directly to its parent Region's Console page to view and manage resources. This capability streamlines navigation for customers operating across multiple AWS Local Zones parented to different AWS Regions. This capability is available across all AWS Local Zones in public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console. For more information, see the AWS Local Zones documentation.

Today, we’re excited to launch application favoriting and quick access features in the AWS Management Console. Now you can pin your most-used applications as favorites and quickly return to recently visited applications. Customers can easily designate favorite applications with a single click, and sort your most important applications, bringing favorites to the top of your list. Recently visited applications can now be accessed in the Recently Visited widget on Console Home, streamlining your workflow and reducing the time spent searching for frequently used resources. You can also access favorites, recently visited, and a list of all applications in the Services menu in the navigation bar from anywhere in the AWS Console. These new features are available in all public AWS Regions. To start using recently visited and favorited applications, visit the Applications widget on Console Home by signing into the https://aws.amazon.com/console/https://aws.amazon.com/console/ and use the star icon to designate favorite applications.

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies in a single, tailored dashboard. The Detected Anomalies widget displays the number of anomalies detected and their total cost impact relative to your month-to-date spend, giving you immediate context on each anomaly's scale. For each anomaly, you can review the cost impact, root cause, and duration. Choose a look-back period of 30, 60, or 90 days, and filter by severity, service, account, and region so that each dashboard shows the anomalies most relevant to that account. By adding one or more Detected Anomalies widget to a BCM Dashboard, finance teams and cloud administrators can monitor anomalies from their existing cost management workflows. The widget links directly to the AWS Cost Anomaly Detection console so you can easily investigate an anomaly and record your assessment. It is fully integrated with dashboard exports and can be included in scheduled email reports or downloaded as a CSV or PDF for offline analysis. It is also included with cross-account dashboard sharing. The Detected Anomalies widget for BCM Dashboards is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge. To learn more, visit our User Guide.

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies in a single, tailored dashboard. The Detected Anomalies widget displays the number of anomalies detected and their total cost impact relative to your month-to-date spend, giving you immediate context on each anomaly's scale. For each anomaly, you can review the cost impact, root cause, and duration. Choose a look-back period of 30, 60, or 90 days, and filter by severity, service, account, and region so that each dashboard shows the anomalies most relevant to that account. By adding one or more Detected Anomalies widget to a BCM Dashboard, finance teams and cloud administrators can monitor anomalies from their existing cost management workflows. The widget links directly to the AWS Cost Anomaly Detection console so you can easily investigate an anomaly and record your assessment. It is fully integrated with dashboard exports and can be included in scheduled email reports or downloaded as a CSV or PDF for offline analysis. It is also included with cross-account dashboard sharing. The Detected Anomalies widget for BCM Dashboards is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge. To learn more, visit our https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/dashboards.html.

AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) Dashboards now include Managed Dashboards. These are a collection of preconfigured and read-only dashboards located in your dashboard list. They deliver actionable cost insights with your account data pre-populated without setup.  There are five curated dashboards. Cost Overview & Trends tracks your spending patterns across services, accounts, and regions over 12 months with forward-looking forecasts. Compute and Database dashboards show your spend pattern within each service category, pairing cost breakdowns with relevant commitment coverage and utilization metrics in a single view. Reservations and Savings Plans dashboards show how well your purchased commitments are performing across all eligible services, quantifying gaps and underutilization in monetary terms.  All managed dashboards are read-only and maintained by AWS. You can duplicate any dashboard to create a fully editable custom copy, add individual widgets to your existing dashboards, and export via PDF or CSV. Whether you are starting your FinOps journey or looking for a standardized baseline across accounts, Managed Dashboards give you cost visibility without setup so you can focus on analysis and action rather than configuration.  AWS Managed Dashboards are available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost. To get started, navigate to Dashboards in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console or view the user guide.

AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) Dashboards now include Managed Dashboards. These are a collection of preconfigured and read-only dashboards located in your dashboard list. They deliver actionable cost insights with your account data pre-populated without setup.  There are five curated dashboards. Cost Overview & Trends tracks your spending patterns across services, accounts, and regions over 12 months with forward-looking forecasts. Compute and Database dashboards show your spend pattern within each service category, pairing cost breakdowns with relevant commitment coverage and utilization metrics in a single view. Reservations and Savings Plans dashboards show how well your purchased commitments are performing across all eligible services, quantifying gaps and underutilization in monetary terms.  All managed dashboards are read-only and maintained by AWS. You can duplicate any dashboard to create a fully editable custom copy, add individual widgets to your existing dashboards, and export via PDF or CSV. Whether you are starting your FinOps journey or looking for a standardized baseline across accounts, Managed Dashboards give you cost visibility without setup so you can focus on analysis and action rather than configuration.  AWS Managed Dashboards are available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost. To get started, navigate to Dashboards in the https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/ or view the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/dashboards.html. 

Today, AWS announces the addition of an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, providing a visual way to explore AWS Global Infrastructure. Previously, customers had to scan through a list of AWS locations in AWS Global View. With this new capability, customers can toggle between the interactive map view and the existing list view, making it easier to visualize their global AWS infrastructure footprint.  When customers select the map view, they will see all AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones plotted on an interactive map. This capability helps customers make informed infrastructure planning decisions by visualizing already enabled AWS locations and the full range of AWS locations available to them, all in a single glance. This capability is available across all public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Regions and Zones page in AWS Global View console. For more information, see the AWS Global View documentation.

Today, AWS announces the addition of an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, providing a visual way to explore AWS Global Infrastructure. Previously, customers had to scan through a list of AWS locations in AWS Global View. With this new capability, customers can toggle between the interactive map view and the existing list view, making it easier to visualize their global AWS infrastructure footprint.  When customers select the map view, they will see all AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones plotted on an interactive map. This capability helps customers make informed infrastructure planning decisions by visualizing already enabled AWS locations and the full range of AWS locations available to them, all in a single glance. This capability is available across all public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Regions and Zones page in https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2globalview/home#RegionsAndZones console. For more information, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/global-view.html documentation.

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how their spend breaks down by service over time. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console, select Add widgets, and drag the Cost and Usage widget onto your Console Home dashboard. To learn more, see Working with widgets in AWS Console Home documentation.

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how their spend breaks down by service over time. To get started, sign in to the https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/, select Add widgets, and drag the Cost and Usage widget onto your Console Home dashboard. To learn more, see https://docs.aws.eu/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/work-with-widgets.html.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing new CloudWatch Alarms capabilities in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now investigate alarms and move from notification to root cause faster with interactive graphs, AI-generated logs summaries, natural language logs search, and streamlined access to related metrics and resources. When a CloudWatch Alarm triggers, engineers often need to quickly understand what went wrong. Previously, investigating an alarm on the mobile app required switching between multiple screens and services to view metrics, access logs, and identify the root cause. This update brings these capabilities together in a single view, reducing the time from notification to resolution. CloudWatch Alarms now include interactive graphs that let you visualize the metric that triggered the alarm, zoom in on specific time windows, and explore the data to quickly identify anomalies. You can access related logs and review an AI-generated summary that highlights key contributing factors. To refine log search results, you can type queries, use voice input, or select pre-saved Logs Insights queries using natural language. A time selector lets you view custom time ranges and adjust time zones to match your operational needs. Related metrics and resources are conveniently displayed alongside the alarm, facilitating a more thorough investigation. To get started, download the AWS Console Mobile App from the https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aws-console/id580990573 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.aws.console.mobile, then navigate to CloudWatch in the app to investigate Alarms. The AWS Console Mobile App is available in all AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost. For more information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/console/mobile/.

AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster.

AWS Management Console Private Access now enables customers to access the AWS Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, allowing enterprises to manage their AWS infrastructure through the console while maintaining strict network security controls in air-gapped environments. Previously, AWS Management Console Private Access allowed customers to restrict console access to authorized AWS accounts and corporate networks but still required internet connectivity. With this launch, AWS Console traffic can flow through VPC endpoints for the supported service consoles, eliminating the need for any internet access. This capability is particularly valuable for customers in regulated industries such as financial services, government and defense, and healthcare, and for enterprises with strict security requirements who need to access sensitive data only from controlled environments and use the console in classified or networks without internet connectivity. AWS Management Console Private Access uses AWS PrivateLink to establish secure network paths between customer VPCs and the console. Customers can apply VPC endpoint policies to restrict access to specific AWS accounts and organizations, and use IAM, Service Control, and Resource Control policies to require that employees access resources only from authorized networks. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions. You pay only for the underlying AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoint usage and data processing. To get started and learn about the supported services, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/console-private-access.html.

Today, AWS announces the addition of AWS Local Zones to the Region selector in the AWS Management Console, providing a unified experience across AWS global infrastructure. AWS Local Zones now appear alongside AWS Regions in the Console's top navigation, making it easier for customers to quickly navigate to the Console page for managing their resources in AWS Local Zones. Now, when customers select the Local Zones tab in the Region selector, they will see all opted-in AWS Local Zones in one place. Clicking on an AWS Local Zone takes customers directly to its parent Region's Console page to view and manage resources. This capability streamlines navigation for customers operating across multiple AWS Local Zones parented to different AWS Regions. This capability is available across all AWS Local Zones in public AWS Regions. To get started, navigate to the Region selector in the https://console.aws.amazon.com/. For more information, see the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/getting-started.html documentation.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing new CloudWatch Alarms capabilities in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now investigate alarms and move from notification to root cause faster with interactive graphs, AI-generated logs summaries, natural language logs search, and streamlined access to related metrics and resources. When a CloudWatch Alarm triggers, engineers often need to quickly understand what went wrong. Previously, investigating an alarm on the mobile app required switching between multiple screens and services to view metrics, access logs, and identify the root cause. This update brings these capabilities together in a single view, reducing the time from notification to resolution. CloudWatch Alarms now include interactive graphs that let you visualize the metric that triggered the alarm, zoom in on specific time windows, and explore the data to quickly identify anomalies. You can access related logs and review an AI-generated summary that highlights key contributing factors. To refine log search results, you can type queries, use voice input, or select pre-saved Logs Insights queries using natural language. A time selector lets you view custom time ranges and adjust time zones to match your operational needs. Related metrics and resources are conveniently displayed alongside the alarm, facilitating a more thorough investigation. To get started, download the AWS Console Mobile App from the https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aws-console/id580990573 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.aws.console.mobile, then navigate to CloudWatch in the app to investigate Alarms. The AWS Console Mobile App is available in all AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost. For more information, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/console/mobile/.

AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Visible services and Visible Regions account settings in the AWS Management Console. These settings allow you to customize which services and regions appear in the Management Console for authorized users in your account, helping your users easily identify what is available to them and simplifying navigation. You can configure these settings in the AWS Management Console under Unified Settings in the Account Settings tab. You can also configure these setting programmatically via User Experience Customization (UXC) in AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or AWS CloudFormation. The Visible services and Visible Regions settings are available in AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost. Visit the AWS User Experience Customization https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/uxc.html page and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html to learn more.

AWS introduces visual customization capability in AWS Management Console that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster.

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Partner Central in the AWS Management Console, simplifying access for AWS Partners to Partner Central and the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, and introducing APIs that offer integration and process automation capabilities. The integration of AWS Partner Central into the AWS Console delivers an enhanced experience and new capabilities for Partners. With an expanded set of APIs, partners can automate co-selling processes, streamline AWS Marketplace activities, and unlock AWS Partner Network benefits more seamlessly. Enhanced security and user management features, built on AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), allow for granular permissions and single sign-on (SSO), improving operational efficiency and scalability. AWS Partner Central in the console is available for AWS Partners today. This new experience is available in all AWS Regions, providing Partners with a consistent and secure way to manage their AWS business across the globe. Existing Partners can begin their migration to the new experience using the migration feature in the existing Partner Central portal, which provides step-by-step guidance for migrating to the AWS Console. To learn more about the new AWS Partner Central experience and how to get started, read the blog.