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AWS Console showing URL encoded name (Love%20Rajput) in header instead of decoded value

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I noticed that in the AWS Console header (top-right corner), the account name is displayed as a URL-encoded value instead of a readable format.

Example: Displayed: Love%20Rajput Expected: Love Rajput

This issue is visible across services (e.g., EC2 dashboard), suggesting it may be a global UI rendering issue.

I have verified that this is not coming from any application-side encoding.

Has anyone else faced this issue? Is there a way to correct the display, or is this something that needs to be fixed by AWS?

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This appears to be a display bug in the AWS Management Console where URL-encoded characters (like %20 for spaces) are being rendered directly in the user interface instead of being decoded to their readable format. This is not an expected behavior of the console.

Since the AWS Management Console is designed to provide secure, web-based access to AWS services with a customizable interface for managing your account, the display should show properly formatted text throughout the console, including in the account header.

To address this issue, I recommend:

  1. Clear your browser cache and cookies - Sometimes cached data can cause display issues in web applications.

  2. Try a different browser - This can help determine if it's browser-specific.

  3. Contact AWS Support - Since this appears to be a console rendering bug that affects the global UI across multiple services, AWS Support would be the appropriate channel to report this issue. They can investigate whether this is a known issue and provide a timeline for a fix.

  4. Check if the account name was set with URL encoding - While you mentioned this isn't application-side encoding, verify in your account settings that the name itself wasn't accidentally saved with the encoded characters.

This type of display issue would need to be corrected on AWS's end if it's a console bug, as users don't have direct control over how the console renders account information in the header.
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