Where/how are the main Console widgets stored? Can they be pre-set?

The settings that determine which widgets to display or hide on your AWS Management Console dashboard, such as "show widget X, Y, Z; don't show widgets A, B, C," are stored on the server side and are associated with your user identity. This means that these preferences are saved within AWS's servers and linked directly to your account profile, ensuring that they persist across different sessions and devices, provided you log in with the same user credentials.

💡 To practically verify this, you can customize your dashboard by adding or removing widgets and then access the AWS Console from a different browser or in private browsing mode, where the cache and local storage are cleared. Upon logging in, you should see that your customized dashboard settings persist, indicating that the information is indeed stored server-side, not locally on your device.