Customizing the AWS Management Console Experience with Account Color, Region, and Service Visibility

AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) has added new capabilities, allowing you to adjust not only account color but also Region and service visibility together in the AWS Management Console. Hiding unused Regions and services can reduce cognitive load and unnecessary clicks and scrolling.

You can assign colors per account to distinguish environments. For example, development accounts can be orange, test accounts light blue, and production accounts red, allowing visual differentiation that matches your operational context.

Region and service visibility only change how the console is displayed and do not restrict access itself. Settings can be managed from the console's settings menu, and if you have an administrator role, you can edit Visible Regions and the service list in the Account settings tab of unified settings to expose only the items you want.

After configuration, only the selected items are shown.

• Regions appear in the Region selector in the navigation bar.
• For services, only the selected ones appear in the All services menu and search results.
• Service selection can be organized by categories such as Popular services or through search.

Programmatic management is also possible. You can use the visibleServices and visibleRegions parameters to declaratively deploy account customizations via AWS CloudFormation templates. The example template uses the AWS::UXC::AccountCustomization resource, and lets you specify AccountColor, VisibleServices, and VisibleRegions together.

The key point is that while the console usage experience can be organized narrowly and clearly per team, it does not affect accessibility through other paths such as AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS APIs, and Amazon Q Developer.