Amazon QuickSight IAM roles - Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight IAM roles

An IAM role is an entity within your AWS account that has specific permissions. You can use IAM roles to group permissions together to make it easier to manage user's access to Amazon QuickSight actions.

Amazon QuickSight doesn't support the following role features:

  • Service-linked roles.

  • Service roles.

  • Temporary credentials (direct use): However, Amazon QuickSight uses temporary credentials to allow users to assume an IAM role to access embedded dashboards. For more information, see Working with embedded analytics.

For more information on how Amazon QuickSight uses IAM roles, see Using Amazon QuickSight with IAM and IAM policy examples for Amazon QuickSight.