Accessing Timestream for LiveAnalytics

You can access Timestream for LiveAnalytics using the console, CLI or the API. For information about accessing Timestream for LiveAnalytics, review the following:

Topics

• Sign up for an AWS account

• Provide Timestream for LiveAnalytics access

• Using the console

• Accessing Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics using the AWS CLI

• Using the API

• Using the AWS SDKs

Sign up for an AWS account

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Provide Timestream for LiveAnalytics access

The permissions that are required to access Timestream for LiveAnalytics are already granted to the administrator. For other users, you should grant them Timestream for LiveAnalytics access using the following policy:

JSON

{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "timestream:*",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:CreateGrant",
        "kms:Decrypt",
        "dbqms:CreateFavoriteQuery",
        "dbqms:DescribeFavoriteQueries",
        "dbqms:UpdateFavoriteQuery",
        "dbqms:DeleteFavoriteQueries",
        "dbqms:GetQueryString",
        "dbqms:CreateQueryHistory",
        "dbqms:UpdateQueryHistory",
        "dbqms:DeleteQueryHistory",
        "dbqms:DescribeQueryHistory",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Note

For information about dbqms, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Database Query Metadata Service. For information about kms see Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Key Management Service.