AWS Resource Explorer

Search for and discover relevant resources across AWS

Available for free

with the AWS Free Tier

Find your resources across AWS Regions and accounts using tags, keywords, and other metadata.

Quickly navigate to your resources and act on them in the appropriate service console.

Save time by finding and acting on resources without building a custom search infrastructure.

Search for resources from any service page using unified search in the AWS Management Console.

How it works

Use AWS Resource Explorer to more easily search for and discover your resources across AWS Regions and accounts, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Kinesis streams, and Amazon DynamoDB tables.
Diagram shows how to use AWS Resource Explorer to easily search for and discover your resources across AWS. First choose the AWS Regions that you want to index. Next, configure views and user permissions. Then, search for your resources, and go directly to them from the search results.
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Introduction to Resource Explorer

You can use Resource Explorer to more quickly and easily search and discover your AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts. You can start your search in Unified Search in the AWS Management Console, the AWS Resource Explorer console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the SDK - and filter using tags, services, and other metadata.

Use cases

Better understand your application resources

Search for application resources across AWS Regions and accounts using application names and tags. 

Learn how to search for your application resources »

Locate resources to act on alerts promptly

Address alerts by finding and navigating to relevant resources directly from the unified search bar in the AWS Management Console.

Learn more about enabling AWS Resource Explorer in unified search »

Identify untagged or improperly tagged resources

Quickly identify any untagged or improperly tagged resources across AWS Regions using simple named operators.

Learn more about searching by tag »

How to get started

Turn on Resource Explorer


Configure AWS Resource Explorer in only a few minutes.

Set up AWS Resource Explorer »

Learn how to discover your resources

Search from anywhere in the AWS Management Console.

Read the Getting Started documentation »

Start building with Resource Explorer

Check out the developer guide to learn more.

Read the guide »

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