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bmc console opens the AWS Management Console in your browser for the current or selected AWS profile.

Usage #

bmc console              # Open console for current profile (AWS_PROFILE)
bmc console -p myprofile # Open console for a specific profile
bmc console -p           # Force interactive profile selection
bmc console -s ec2       # Open console at a specific service URL

Browser options #

The Granted Firefox extension enables container tabs — each AWS profile opens in its own isolated container with separate cookies and sessions.

Setup:

  1. Install Firefox
  2. Install the Granted extension from the Firefox Add-ons store
  3. Enable in ~/.config/bmc/config.json:
{
  "console": {
    "firefox_containers": true
  }
}

How it works:

When firefox_containers = true, BMC passes the AWS console URL to the Granted extension via a special URL scheme (granted-containers://). Granted opens it in a Firefox container tab named after the AWS profile. Each profile gets its own isolated session — you can be logged in to multiple AWS accounts simultaneously in separate tabs without any cross-contamination.

If Firefox is not your default browser, Granted still works as long as Firefox is installed.

Chrome profile isolation #

Opens the console in a dedicated Chrome profile per AWS account. See Chrome Profiles for setup details.

{
  "console": {
    "chrome_profiles": true,
    "chrome_binary": "google-chrome"
  }
}

Default browser #

Without either option, BMC opens the AWS console URL in your system default browser.

MFA #

If MFA is enabled and the session has expired, bmc console automatically refreshes it before opening the browser. See MFA setup.

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