/aws-user-interface-improvements

A browser plugin to make the AWS Console slightly more usable

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aws-user-interface-improvements

A browser extenstion which makes some tweaks to the AWS console user interface to make it a bit more usable.

For example, if you sign in with a federated login, it will try to show you the important bits (like which role and account you're in) instead of the garbage AWS shows by default.

Screenshot
Before screenshot showing the AWS UI without the plugin
After screenshot showing the AWS UI with the plugin

Installation

For Chrome:

  1. Download the source from GitHub and unzip.
  2. Visit chrome://extensions in your browser.
  3. Ensure that the Developer mode checkbox in the top right-hand corner is checked.
  4. Click Load unpacked extension… to pop up a file selection dialog.
  5. Navigate to src in the extension directory, and select it.
  6. Visit any page in the AWS console

Source: Getting Started: Building a Chrome Extension.

For Firefox:

Extensions installed using the following instructions are only active while Firefox is open and are removed on exit. Permanently-active extensions can be only be installed from packages signed by Mozilla.

  1. Download the source from GitHub and unzip.
  2. Visit about:debugging in your browser.
  3. Click Load Temporary Add-on to pop up a file selection dialog.
  4. Navigate to src in the extension directory, and select manifest.json.
  5. Visit any page in the AWS console

Source: Temporary installation in Firefox.