Choosing the right access approach for Amazon Quick Suite

Henry Kong, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

May 2024 (document history)

Amazon Quick Suite is a comprehensive, AI-powered business intelligence platform that makes it easy to analyze data, create visualizations, automate workflows, and collaborate across your organization. Access to most AWS services is configured through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and policies. You can configure access to Quick Suite by using IAM, or you can use one of the other available approaches that can be configured directly in the service, such as local users, federation, and directory integration. For most use cases, AWS IAM Identity Center is the recommended way to manage Quick Suite access. This guide describes the available options for provisioning access to Quick Suite so that you can select the appropriate option for your organization. It also discusses use cases and configuration and operations factors that can influence this decision.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for enterprise architects, data architects, and identity and access architects who are making strategic technical decisions about the use of Quick Suite within their organization.

Objectives

This guide can help you and your organization achieve the following objectives:

• Understand the different approaches to manage user access to Quick Suite

• Identify the various access features in Quick Suite that are important for your organization and align best with your processes and use case

• Make an informed decision about which Quick Suite access approach is the best for your organization