AWS Management Console
A Web-based Interface to Manage Your Services
Access and manage Amazon’s growing suite of infrastructure web services through our new point-and-click, web-based user interface. The AWS Management Console gives you a quick, global picture of your cloud computing environment so that you can see what resources you’re operating and conveniently manage those resources.
Making AWS Simpler to Access and Use
The
AWS Management Console provides a graphical user interface for Amazon
EC2, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront, with additional Amazon infrastructure services scheduled to be added to the console in the coming months.

Amazon EC2 Features
With the AWS Management Console, developers can start and stop EC2 instances, view and perform actions on running instances, and manage Elastic Block Store volumes with simple clicks of a mouse. You can also see what configurations you have set (e.g. security groups, key pairs, and Elastic IPs) and modify them using interactive controls.
Instances & AMIs
Launch and manage Amazon
EC2 instances. Find, manage, and create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
Elastic Block Store
Create, manage, and delete
EBS volumes and snapshots. Attach and detach volumes to Amazon
EC2 instances.
Reserved Instances
View what reserved instances are available and purchase them directly from the console.
Monitor Instances
Enable and disable monitoring for Amazon
EC2 instances and view real-time operational metrics.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce Features
With the AWS Management Console, developers can easily launch Elastic MapReduce job flows and monitor their progress. You can create as many job flows as you’d like by filling out a simple wizard. You can monitor job flow status as it progresses through execution stages, and, if required, terminate it with a single mouse click. Using our search interface you can view up to two weeks of job flow history.
Start Jobs
Create and terminate data processing job flows.
Open Source Samples
Get started quickly using open source samples.
Manage Jobs
View running job flows and monitor their progress.
Amazon CloudFront Features
Manage Amazon CloudFront through an easy to use interface. The AWS Management Console lets you review all your CloudFront distributions, create new distributions, or edit existing ones. All the features of the CloudFront API are supported: you can enable or disable distributions, configure CNAMEs, enable end-user logging, and more.
Create New Distribution
Choose your Amazon S3 bucket and get a CloudFront domain name.
CNAMEs
Use your own domain name with CloudFront.
End User Logging
Get detailed activity records stored to the Amazon S3 bucket of your choice.
Manage Distributions
View the status of your active distributions and edit their properties.
Future Roadmap
The following features and new services are scheduled to be added to the
AWS Management Console in the near future. To request additional features, please submit requests on our
feedback form.
- Tagging – Label and group Amazon EC2 resources with your own custom metadata to make it easier to identify and manage your instances, volumes, and other EC2 resources.
- Auto Scaling – Configure auto-scaling rules through a web-based UI.
- Amazon S3 Support – Create and delete Amazon S3 buckets, upload and download objects through your browser, edit permissions, set log data, and manage URLs.
- Amazon SimpleDB Support – Construct SimpleDB queries through a point-and-click query expression builder and explore your data through a graphical dataset viewer.
- Amazon SQS Support – Manage your SQS queues, add and retrieve messages from your queues, test and build your applications with help from the AWS Management Console.