Prettify the AWS Console’s Navigation Bar.

The other day I came across AWS console regions color. A Chrome/FireFox extension that colors the top navigation bar based on the region you are in. The extension also adds the region code and appropriate country flag to the navigation bar. Cool, good work author!

Now, I like the idea of having a more informative navigation bar but, my AWS interactions all tend to be in the same region. I would not get any lift from this plugin. What’s more, the source for the extension is not publicly available - at least not at the time of writing. This prevents me from tweaking the plugin for my usecase. Further, it denies me an opportunity to skim through the codebase and make sure nothing fishy is happening. Now, this is in no way an accusation, just a motivation to go and write my own flavor of the plugin. And that is what I did.

pretty-aws-navbar is less than 100 lines of js that will color the AWS console’s navigation bar and conveniently display the appropriate region code next to the region name. I deploy the script with greasemonkey but imagine any userscript manager will do the trick. Feel free to inspect, use, and tweak the code however you see fit!