AWS Management Console
A Web-based Interface to Manage Your Services
Access and manage Amazon’s growing suite of infrastructure web services through a simple and intuitive, web-based user interface. The AWS Management Console provides convenient management of your compute, storage, and other cloud resources.
Making AWS Simpler to Access and Use
The
AWS Management Console provides a point-and-click web interface for Amazon Web Services. Log in using your
AWS account name and password. If you’ve enabled
AWS Multi-Factor Authentication, you will be prompted for your device’s authentication code. No need to look up and enter your Access Key and Secret Key.

This page contains the following categories of information. Click to jump down:
Amazon S3 Features
With the AWS Management Console you can easily manage Amazon S3 buckets and objects. You can create buckets, upload objects, and manage all aspects of your Amazon S3 resources.
Create Buckets
Easily and securely create buckets to store your objects. Choose the region where your objects are stored to optimize latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory requirements.
Upload Objects
Upload files from your computer to Amazon S3 so they are durably stored and available from any location.
Manage Your Resources
Browse the contents of your Amazon S3 buckets. Configure access control for buckets and objects.
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.
Amazon RDS Features
You can use the point-and-click AWS Management Console interface to launch Database Instances (including highly available and reliable Multi-AZ deployments), take real-time snapshots of a DB Instance, and view important statistics like read and write throughput, latency, free storage space and more, all from your browser. The AWS Management Console support enhances the simplicity of running a MySQL database with Amazon RDS, making it even easier to get started.
Launch DB Instances
Use a graphical wizard to launch or modify a DB Instance with only a few mouse clicks, setting key parameters as you see fit.
DB Snapshots
Easily take a snapshot of your DB Instance for archival, rollback, or cloning.
DB Instance Monitoring
Graphical representations of key statistics like
CPU utilization, free storage space, write/read throughput, write/read latency, and more.