Introduction

If you manage AWS infrastructure across multiple regions — which every production-grade setup does — you've felt the pain of jumping between region tabs in the console just to check how many EC2 instances are running globally, or hunting down an orphaned EIP you forgot about in ap-southeast-1 . AWS Global View solves exactly that problem.

AWS Global View is a read-only, single-pane-of-glass console built directly into the EC2/VPC console at us-east-1 that gives you a unified summary of EC2 and VPC resources across every AWS region your account is enabled in. It requires zero setup, zero cost, and zero configuration.…