Live Demo at https://aws-explorer.vercel.app
AWS Explorer is a web application that provides a fast, user-friendly interface to explore:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) services
- architecture service/resources icons
- documentations
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Homepage with search and filter: Showing AWS services with short description and categories.
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Icon Layout: Just as in AWS architecture diagram
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List Layout: Quickly navigate between services
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Resources of services: Take a glance at the resources of each service
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Detail page: More detail about the service and its resources
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Docs: Each service is linked to docs without distraction
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Responsive: Use it at work, on the road, or at home
Mobile Table 
- Developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects who frequently reference AWS documentation.
- Teams who want a quick reference tool for AWS services without navigating the full AWS documentation site.
- Anyone looking for a more streamlined and efficient way to discover AWS services and their official docs.
- Alphabetical sorting: Services are always sorted A–Z, so you can quickly find what you need.
- No naming confusion:: Don’t wonder whether it’s "Amazon S3" or “AWS S3” - just search and find it.
- No distraction by “Amazon” or “AWS” prefixes: Just the service name you expect.
- Faster navigation: Quickly search and filter AWS services by name, category, or description.
- Better overview: See all AWS services at a glance, with icons and short descriptions.
- Persistent filters: Easily share filtered views or bookmark your favorite categories.
- Modern UI: Enjoy a clean, responsive, and distraction-free interface.
| Feature | AWS Explorer | Official AWS Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Fast, global search | ✅ | ✅ |
| Support abbr. | 🚀 A2C, ADS, AMB, AMS, ARC, CDI, DLM, DMS, DRS, EFS, ELB, IAM, IVS, MGN, RAM, RDS, ROSA, SCT, SES, SMC, TNB | 🟡 Only if you're lucky |
| Support historical name | 🚀 CloudWatch Events, Elasticsearch Service, AWS Chatbot... | ❌ History is erased: X |
| Support full name | 🚀 Elastic Computing Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud... | ❌ I'm the captain know (EBS, EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, EMR, MSK, MWAA, QLDB, SNS, SQS, SAM, S3 VPN, WAF...) |
| Direct links to docs | ✅ | ✅ |
| Category filtering | ✅ Support multi categories | 🟡 Only support one category |
| Service icons | ✅ All services have icon | 🟡 Only for feature services |
| Category icons | 🚀 All categories have icon | ❌ Not supported |
| Resources icons | 🚀 Show resource icons in icon layout and detail page | ❌ Not supported |
| Downloadable icons | 🚀 Spent time drawing architecture diagram instead of searching for the icons | ❌ Not supported |
| Service aka | ✅ Support aka for services, e.g. RDS, ELB, EFS | ❌ Not supported |
| Preload detail page | ✅ See it at a glance | ❌ Needs a whole page load |
| Links to docs | 🚀 Show all docs of the services without distraction | ✅ Show all docs of the services but also overwhelm you with so much information |
| Support go back | ✅ Continue where you are before checking detail of a service | ❌ Reset everything after you checking a service |
| Clean, minimal UI | ✅ | 🟡 So much distraction that you want to go and hide in the corner |
| Hide/show prefix AWS/Amazon | ✅ VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch | ❌ Amazon VPC, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch 😕 |
| Sort | ✅ By category, service name (without/with AWS/Amazon) | ❌ Services are sorted by name with AWS/Amazon prefix |
| Alphabet sorting | ✅ VPC is near VPN, CloudTrail is next to CloudWatch | ❌ Amazon VPC doesn't know AWS VPN, AWS CloudTrail never meets Amazon CloudWatch |
| Layout mode | 🚀 Grid, list, icon view | 🟡 Only one layout |
| Page size | 🚀 Show all the services if your machine can handle it | 🟡 Only one page size (18). Is it weird? |
| Up-to-date list of services | 🟡 Update frequently | ✅ Always up-to-date |
Note
AWS Explorer is not an official AWS product. For the most current and comprehensive list of services, always refer to AWS Documentation.
- Show services resources in detail page.
- Show docs in detail page.
- Hide/show prefix Amazon/AWS.
- Support sort by category.
- Support abbr, historical name, fullname.
- Support copy/download SVG icon.
- Show related services in detail page.
- Add CI/CD pipeline to crawl AWS docs every week.
- Support update AWS architecture icons from CI/CD.
Inspired by the needs of the AWS developer community:
- MKAbuMattar/aws-react-icons for the source code to process the AWS Architecture Icons packages.
- AWS architecture icons for the icons.
- AWS Documentation for the list of services and descriptions.
- Vercel's v0 for providing the staring point.
- And many others open-sourced projects