Step 1: Retrieve the Amazon QuickSight Principal ARN

If you want to deploy Amazon QuickSight resources, you must retrieve the Amazon QuickSight Principal ARN before deploying this solution. To retrieve the Amazon QuickSight User Principal ARN, you must have access to a shell or terminal with the AWS CLI installed. For installation instructions, refer to What Is the AWS Command Line Interface in the AWS CLI User Guide. Optionally, you can use the AWS CloudShell service to run AWS CLI commands.

Running the following list-users command returns the list of users with their corresponding QuickSight User ARNs.

aws quicksight list-users --region <aws-region> --aws-account-id <account-id> --namespace <namespace-name>

The following example shows a valid ARN:

arn:aws:quicksight:<aws-region>:<account-id>:user/<namespace-name>/<quicksight-user-name>

The default namespace-name is default. For example, arn:aws:quicksight:us-east-1:1111111111111:user/default/myquicksightuser. Choose a user who has permissions to create Amazon QuickSight resources in that account and AWS Region, such as a QuickSight admin user.

If you do not have an Amazon QuickSight Enterprise account, refer to Signing up for an Amazon QuickSight subscription to set up your account and then retrieve the Principal account ARN.