Faster AWS Console Navigation with Chrome Site Search

TLDR

aws + [TAB] + ec2 + [ENTER] is all you need.

No need to enter the entire AWS Console URL every time, or consuming your energy in searching EC2’s icon in the console.

Background

So you may navigate different AWS console pages daily during work/project.

Say you want to access the EFS service page in AWS Console, you typed in the URL bar but - Nope, no direct link since I didn't visit that page before on my browser.

So what if I want to navigate to EC2 service page?
Better, but still I have to do some cursor navigation.

It takes extra attention for you to navigate to the right AWS Console's service page, even if you can type in the entire service name slug with your muscle memory 🧠. Typing the entire URL probably works, but it's more prone to errors.

Faster Way with Chrome Native Site Search

1. Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines in Chrome
2. Scroll down to Site search
3. Click Add

4. Fill in the following details:

   Field	Value
   Name	AWS Console
   Shortcut	aws
   URL with %s in place of query	https://console.aws.amazon.com/%s

   

Let's Try It

With Chrome's Site Search feature, here's what required to navigate to the EC2 console page:

1. Type aws in the URL bar
2. Press [SPACE] or [TAB]
3. enter the service name in lower case slug, e.g. ec2, efs, ecs, s3

It will redirect you to console.aws.amazon.com/<service_name>, which will in turn redirect you to <you_default_region>.console.aws.amazon.com/<service_name>.

It's quicker and much more handy, isn't it?