AWS Resource Explorer

Search for and discover relevant resources across AWS

Available for free

with the AWS Free Tier

Find relevant resources across AWS Regions using tags, simple 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 easily search for and discover your resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon Kinesis data streams, and Amazon DynamoDB tables, across AWS Regions. From the search results, you can quickly navigate to the resources in the appropriate service console and take action.
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 AWS Resource Explorer

AWS Resource Explorer is a managed capability that simplifies the search and discovery of your AWS resources across AWS Regions. Start your search from the unified search bar in the AWS Management Console or the AWS Resource Explorer console, or use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or the AWS SDKs. Filter the results by using tags, services, and other metadata.

Use cases

Better understand your application resources

Search for application resources across AWS Regions using application tags and resource metadata.

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 AWS 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 AWS Resource Explorer

Check out the developer guide to learn more.

Read the guide »

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