Customise your AWS Administration Console expertise with visible settings together with account shade, area and repair visibility

In August 2025, we launched AWS Consumer Expertise Customization (UXC) functionality to tailor person interfaces (UIs) to satisfy your particular wants and full your duties effectively. With this functionality, your account administrator can customise some UI part of AWS Administration Console, resembling assigning a shade to an AWS account for simpler identification.

As we speak, we’re saying further customization functionality in UXC that allows selective show of related AWS Areas and companies to your workforce members. By hiding unused Areas and companies, you possibly can scale back cognitive load and remove pointless clicks and scrolling, serving to you focus higher and work quicker. With this launch, we provide the power to customise account shade, Area, and repair visibility collectively.

Categorize account by shade

You possibly can set a shade to your accounts to visually distinguish between them. To get began, register to the AWS Administration Console and select your account title on the navigation bar. Your account shade isn’t set but. To set the colour, select Account.

Within the Account show settings, choose your most popular account shade and select Replace. You possibly can see the chosen shade within the navigation bar.

By altering the account shade, you possibly can clearly distinguish the account’s goal. For instance, you need to use orange for growth accounts, mild blue for take a look at accounts, and pink for manufacturing accounts.

Customise Areas and companies visibility

You possibly can management which AWS Areas seem within the Area selector or which AWS companies seem within the console navigation. In different phrases, you possibly can set to point out solely the Areas and companies which might be related to your account.

To get began, select the gear icon on the navigation bar and select See all person settings. If you’re in an administrator position, you possibly can see a brand new Account settings tab within the unified settings. If in case you have not configured a setting, all Areas and companies are seen.

To set seen Areas, select Edit within the Seen Areas part. Choose your seen Areas to All accessible Areas or Choose Areas and configure your listing. Select Save modifications.

After configuring seen Area setting, you’ll find solely chosen Areas within the Areas selector on the navigation bar within the console.

You can even set seen companies in the identical approach. Search or choose companies from the class. I used the Widespread companies class to pick out my favorites. Whenever you end choice, select Save modifications.

After configuring seen companies setting, you’ll find solely chosen companies within the All companies menu on the navigation bar.

Whenever you search the service title within the search bar, you possibly can solely select chosen companies.

The Areas and companies visibility settings management solely the looks of companies and Areas within the console. They don’t limit entry by way of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS SDKs, AWS APIs, or Amazon Q Developer.

You can even handle these account customization settings programmatically with new visibleServices and visibleRegions parameters. For instance, you need to use AWS CloudFormation pattern template:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: Customise AWS Console look for this account

Sources:
  AccountCustomization:
    Sort: AWS::UXC::AccountCustomization
    Properties:
      AccountColor: pink
      VisibleServices:
        - s3
        - ec2
        - lambda
      VisibleRegions:
        - us-east-1
        - us-west-2

And you’ll deploy your Cloudformation template.

$ aws cloudformation deploy 
  --template-file account-customization.yaml 
  --stack-name my-account-customization

To be taught extra, go to the AWS Consumer Expertise Customization API Reference and AWS CloudFormation template reference.

Give it a attempt within the AWS Administration Console in the present day and supply suggestions by deciding on the Suggestions hyperlink on the backside of the console, posting to the AWS re:Submit discussion board for the AWS Administration Console, or reaching out to your AWS Assist contacts.

— Channy