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 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 AWS Resource Explorer. It all happens automatically if you use the Quick setup option.

• You must create an aggregator index in one AWS Region for the AWS account.

• You must create a default view in the AWS Region that contains the aggregator index.

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