AWS Management Console now supports assigning a color to an AWS account for easier identification

Today, AWS announces the general availability of account color settings in AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. AWS customers now have an easy way to identify their accounts at a glance. Using the account color setting, account admins can assign a color to their AWS account (such as red for production accounts or yellow for testing accounts) that appears in the Console's navigation bar for all authorized users in that account, enabling quick visual identification of different accounts.

AWS customers manage multiple accounts to separate their workloads, such as maintaining distinct accounts for development and production environments or for different business units. Previously, users had to rely on account numbers to identify accounts. With this new feature, users with admin privileges can assign colors to AWS accounts, enabling all authorized users to quickly identify the account they want to operate on through the colored navigation bar.

When signing in to the AWS Console, users see a default grey color in the navigation bar. Users with admin privileges can change this color through the 'Account' option in the navigation bar's account menu, on the top right of the page. Once the color is set, all users with proper permissions can see it. To view the account color, users need to be assigned permissions using the AWS managed policy AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess or the custom permission uxc:getaccountcolor.

To learn more about account colors, click here. To get started with setting account color, click here.