Here is something that I did not know you could do for ages, shortcuts inside the AWS console that appear on the top bar.

See this animated Gif for how to add them and then use them. I think the Edit button used to be a lot less obvious.

Last year Jeff Barr did a blog post on improvements to the AWS Console. One of these was about "Deep Linking Across EC2 Resources".

"The new deep linking feature lets you easily locate and work with resources that are associated with one another. For example, you can move from an instance to one of its security groups with a single click."

This deep linking is something you can use yourself when creating operational dashboards or your own interfaces. For example here is a little dashboard that I have which displays a quick interactive console for an Auto Scaling Group. You can see that the instance IDs are links, which take you to the specific instance in the EC2 console.

• Instance : https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=<region>#Instances:search=<instance id>
• Volume : https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=<region>#Volumes:search=<volume id>
• Load Balancer : https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=<region>#LoadBalancers:search=<lb name>
• Auto Scaling Group : https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling/home?#AutoScalingGroups:id=<autoscaling group name>