Choosing the right access approach for Amazon QuickSight

Henry Kong, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

May 2024 (document history)

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that helps you visualize, analyze, and report your data in dashboards. Access to most AWS services is configured through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and policies. You can configure access to QuickSight 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 QuickSight access. This guide describes the available options for provisioning access to QuickSight 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.

Targeted business outcomes

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

• Understand the different approaches to manage user access to QuickSight

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

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

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 QuickSight within their organization.