Exploring the AWS management console 

The AWS management console is the central location from where you can access all Amazon services. The management console has links to the following:

• The home screen of the console is shown as follows:

• Click on All services to expand the display. This view lists all the AWS services available in a specific Amazon region. Clicking on any one of these launches the dashboard for the selected service:

• Shortcuts for Amazon Web Services: On the console management screen you can create shortcuts of frequently accessed services by clicking on the pin (located after the Services and the Resource Groups links) in the title bar. We can drag and drop the services from the list to the title bar to add it:

• The modified title bar after adding EC2, S3, RDS and VPC components to it is as shown:

• Account-related information: This allows you to access your account-related data. It includes security credentials needed to access the AWS resources, and the My Billing Dashboard option gives you real-time information on your current month’s billing:

• Amazon regions: This option allows you to access the Amazon Web Services in a specific region. For example, the list of Amazon Web Services, shown earlier, were for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region:

• Help: Click on the Support menu (located on the title bar) to access help-related items. You can navigate to help, forums and support pages:

• Services: Click on the Services menu (located on the title bar) to access specific dashboards. For example, click the EC2 menu item to open the EC2 Dashboard:

• EC2 Dashboard: Shows the summary of EC2 resources and service health information for the region and associated Availability Zones. You can also launch a new EC2 instance from here: