AWS Resource Explorer

Manage local indexes and views and exercise empty-result searches through the default view.

Plan: Pro26 of 32 operations implemented2Known differences

In Vera 1.2.0 preview, search and resource listing rejected an explicit existing view ARN; the default-view path responds but resource discovery is unverified.

Example checked on Vera 1.2.2, 8 November 2026. Each coverage note names its own evidence and date.

Connect

Activate your license key and start the emulator with the Vera launcher, as in Activate Pro, then run this in a terminal of its own, from an empty scratch directory. It gives the official AWS CLI dummy credentials and a config file of its own, so no AWS account is needed and your own AWS profile isn't touched.

export VERA_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:5003"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=test AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=test
export AWS_REGION=us-east-1 AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null
export AWS_EC2_METADATA_DISABLED=true
export AWS_PAGER="" AWS_CLI_AUTO_PROMPT=off
unset AWS_PROFILE AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
unset AWS_SESSION_TOKEN AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN
unset AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE AWS_ROLE_ARN AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME
unset AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_FULL_URI
unset AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI
cat > vera-aws-config <<'EOF'
[default]
region = us-east-1
output = json
cli_binary_format = base64
s3 =
    addressing_style = path
EOF
export AWS_CONFIG_FILE="$PWD/vera-aws-config"

When you've finished every example in this terminal, close it and delete vera-aws-config, not before.

The emulator serves Resource Explorer’s 2022-07-28 API over the REST JSON protocol, through the AWS CLI’s resource-explorer-2 commands. View ARNs name the account configured on your Vera instance and end with a generated ID.

Example

Create an index and a view, and read the view back. The CLI supplies create-index’s optional client token itself, so the command doesn’t need one.

INDEX_ARN=$(aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 create-index \
  --query Arn --output text)
VIEW_ARN=$(aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 create-view \
  --view-name docs-view --included-properties Name=tags \
  --query View.ViewArn --output text)
aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 get-view --view-arn "$VIEW_ARN"

The view’s ID, at the end of its ARN, and its LastUpdatedAt differ on every run:

{
    "View": {
        "ViewArn": "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:us-east-1:123456789012:view/docs-view/view-c791d8c33eb74c22b",
        "Owner": "123456789012",
        "LastUpdatedAt": "2026-11-03T18:21:01+00:00",
        "Scope": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root",
        "IncludedProperties": [
            {
                "Name": "tags"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Make it the default view. GetDefaultView then returns its ARN:

aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 associate-default-view --view-arn "$VIEW_ARN"
aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 get-default-view

Search and list resources through the default view. Leave out --view-arn on both: with the view’s ARN, they failed in Vera 1.2.0 preview (see Limitations).

aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 search --query-string '*'
aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 list-resources

Both answer with empty results. The search returns the default view’s ViewArn and a Count of {"TotalResources":0,"Complete":true}, and may have no Resources field. The resource listing prints {"Resources":[],"ViewArn":null}. An empty result doesn’t show that the index finds resources.

To clean up, clear the default view, then delete the view and the index:

aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 disassociate-default-view
aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 delete-view --view-arn "$VIEW_ARN"
aws --endpoint-url "$VERA_ENDPOINT" resource-explorer-2 delete-index --arn "$INDEX_ARN"

Deleting the index returns State: DELETED.

Supported features

An index, created and deleted. Earlier testing, on 3 November 2026, also read it back with GetIndex as an ACTIVE index of type LOCAL.
Views, created with included properties, read back and deleted.
The default view, set, read back and cleared.
Search and resource listing through the default view: with a default view set and no view ARN, Search and ListResources answer, with empty results.
Also served, not yet tested: listing indexes and views, updating views and the index type, managed and service views, and account-level settings.

Limitations

The main limits are below. A few more apply to every service, and the API coverage notes cover smaller differences.

An explicit view ARN failed. In Vera 1.2.0 preview, Search and ListResources with the ARN of a view that GetView returns both answered HTTP 404 ResourceNotFoundException. Set the view as the default and leave the ARN out instead.
Finding resources wasn’t shown. Only empty results were seen. Whether the index picks up resources from other services, filters them correctly, or aggregates across regions wasn’t verified.

API coverage

Every operation in AWS's published 2022-07-28 API (SDK model, botocore 1.43.105), and whether the emulator implements it. Availability combines the earlier implementation inventory with the dated observations below; checking a page's example does not verify every operation. Each note names its evidence first; an observation given without a build or date comes from earlier testing, on 3 November 2026. What the statuses mean

Operation	Status	Notes
AssociateDefaultView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — set the view as the default.
BatchGetView	Implemented
CreateIndex	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — created an index without a fixed client token, which the CLI supplies.
CreateResourceExplorerSetup	Not implemented
CreateView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — created a view with included property `tags`.
DeleteIndex	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — deleted the index, returning `State: DELETED`.
DeleteResourceExplorerSetup	Not implemented
DeleteView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — deleted the view.
DisassociateDefaultView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — cleared the default view.
GetAccountLevelServiceConfiguration	Implemented
GetDefaultView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — returned the default view's ARN.
GetIndex	Implemented
GetManagedView	Implemented
GetResourceExplorerSetup	Implemented
GetServiceIndex	Implemented
GetServiceView	Implemented
GetView	Implemented	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — returned the view's ARN, owner `123456789012`, scope `arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root` and its included property `tags`.
ListIndexes	Implemented
ListIndexesForMembers	Implemented
ListManagedViews	Implemented
ListResources	Known difference	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — with the ARN of a view that `GetView` returns, answered HTTP 404 `ResourceNotFoundException`. With that view set as the default and no view ARN, it returned an empty `Resources` list and a null `ViewArn`. Finding resources wasn't shown.
ListServiceIndexes	Implemented
ListServiceViews	Implemented
ListStreamingAccessForServices	Implemented
ListSupportedResourceTypes	Not implemented
ListTagsForResource	Not implemented
ListViews	Implemented
Search	Known difference	Local observation: Vera 1.2.0 preview, 5 November 2026 — with the ARN of a view that `GetView` returns, answered HTTP 404 `ResourceNotFoundException`. With that view set as the default and no view ARN, it answered with `Count` `TotalResources: 0`, `Complete: true` and the default view's ARN. Finding resources wasn't shown. Local observation: 3 November 2026 — Answers `404 ResourceNotFoundException` for an existing view's ARN, though `GetView` returns the view.
TagResource	Not implemented
UntagResource	Not implemented
UpdateIndexType	Implemented
UpdateView	Implemented