# Granting anyone on the internet access to an Amazon Quick Sight dashboard
With anyone on the internet


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You can also share your Amazon Quick Sight dashboard with anyone on the internet from the **Share** menu in the Amazon Quick console. When you do this, anyone on the internet will be able to access the dashboard, even if they aren't a registered user on your Quick account, when you share the dashboard link or embed the dashboard.

Use the following sections to grant anyone on the internet access to dashboard when you share it.

**Topics**
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# Before you start
](share-a-dashboard-grant-access-anyone-prerequisites.md)
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# Granting anyone on the internet access to a dashboard
](share-a-dashboard-grant-access-anyone-access.md)
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# Updating a publicly shared dashboard
](share-a-dashboard-grant-access-anyone-update.md)
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# Turning off public sharing settings
](share-a-dashboard-grant-access-anyone-no-share.md)

# Before you start


Before you can share a dashboard with anyone on the internet, make sure to do the following:

1. Turn on session capacity pricing on your account. If you have not turned on session capacity pricing on your account, you won't be able to update your account's public sharing settings. 

1. Assign public sharing permissions to an administrative user in the IAM console. You can add these permissions with a new policy or you can add the new permissions to an existing user.

   The following sample policy provides permissions for use with `UpdatePublicSharingSettings`.

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#### [ JSON ]

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   ```
   {
   "Version":"2012-10-17",		 	 	 
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Action": "quicksight:UpdatePublicSharingSettings",
               "Resource": "*",
               "Effect": "Allow"
           }
       ]
   }
   ```

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   Accounts that don't want users with administrator access to use this feature can add an IAM policy that denies public sharing permissions. The following sample policy denies permissions for use with `UpdatePublicSharingSettings`.

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   ```
   {
   "Version":"2012-10-17",		 	 	 
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Action": "quicksight:UpdatePublicSharingSettings",
               "Resource": "*",
               "Effect": "Deny"
           }
       ]
   }
   ```

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   For more information on using IAM with Quick Sight, see [Using Quick with IAM](security_iam_service-with-iam.md).

   You can also use the "Deny" policy as a Service Control Policy (SCP) if you don't want any of the accounts in your organization to have the public sharing feature. For more information, see [Service control policies (SCPs)](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html) in the *Amazon Organizations User Guide*.

1. Turn on public sharing on your Amazon Quick account.

   1. From the Amazon Quick start page, choose your user icon at the upper right of your browser window, and then choose **Manage Quick**.

   1. In the page that opens, scroll down to the **Permissions** section.

   1. Choose **Public access to dashboards** at left.

   1. On the page that opens, choose **Anyone on the internet**.

      When you turn on this setting, a pop up will appear asking you to confirm your choice. Once you've confirmed your choice, you can grant the public access to specific dashboards and share those dashboards with them with a link or by embedding the dashboard in a public application, wiki, or portal.

# Granting anyone on the internet access to a dashboard


**To grant anyone on the internet access to a dashboard**

1. In Quick, open the published dashboard that you want to share. You must be the owner or a co-owner of the dashboard.

1. In the published dashboard, choose the **Share** icon at upper-right, and then choose **Share dashboard**.

1. In the **Share dashboard** page that opens, choose **Anyone on the internet (public)** in the **Enable access for** section at bottom-left.

   This setting allows you to share the dashboard with anyone on the internet with the share link or when embedded. Turning on this switch also automatically turns on the **Everyone in this account** option, which means that the dashboard will be shared with anyone in your Quick account. If you do not want this, turn off this option.

1. In the **Allow public access** pop-up that appears, enter `confirm` in the box to confirm your choice, and then choose **Confirm**.

After you confirm your dashboard's access settings, an orange **PUBLIC** tag appears at upper right of your dashboard in the Amazon Quick console. Additionally, an eye icon appears on the dashboard on the Quick Sight Dashboards page, both in tile and list view.

Note that when public access is turned on, the dashboard can only be accessed using the link or when embedded using the embed code. For more information about sharing a link to the dashboard, see [Sharing a link a shared dashboard](share-a-dashboard-share-link.md). For more information about embedding dashboards for anyone on the internet, see [Embedding Amazon Quick Sight visuals and dashboards for anonymous users with a 1-click embed code](embedded-analytics-1-click-public.md).

# Updating a publicly shared dashboard


Use the following procedure to update a shared dashboard that can be accessed by anyone on the internet.

**To update a public dashboard:**

1. From the Amazon Quick start page, choose the analysis that is tied to the dashboard that you want to update and make your desired changes. You must be the owner or a co-owner of the analysis.

1. In the analysis, choose **Publish**.

1. In the pop-up that appears, choose **Replace an existing dashboard** and select the public dashboard that you want to update.

1. To confirm your choice, enter `confirm` and then choose **Publish dashboard**.

   Once you choose **Publish dashboard**, your public dashboard is updated to reflect the new changes.

# Turning off public sharing settings


You can turn off public sharing settings for dashboards at anytime. You can turn off public sharing for an individual dashboard, or for all dashboards in your account. Visual sharing settings are determined at the dashboard level. If you turn off public sharing settings to a dashboard that holds a visual that you are embedding, users won't be able to access the visual.

The following table describes the different scenarios for when a dashboard is publicly available.


| Account-level public setting | Dashboard-level public setting | Public access | Visual indicators | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
|  Off  |  Off  |  Off  |  None  | 
|  On  |  Off  |  Off  |  None  | 
|  On  |  On  |  Yes  |  An orange badge appears on the dashboard and an eye icon appears on the dashboard in the **Dashboards** page.  | 
|  Off  |  On  |  No  |  A grey badge appears on the dashboard and an eye icon with a slash appears on the dashboard in the **Dashboards** page. It can take up to two minutes for a dashboard's public access to be revoked.  | 

**To turn off public sharing for a single dashboard**

1. In Amazon Quick, open the published dashboard that you no longer want to share. You must be the owner or a co-owner of the dashboard.

1. In the published dashboard, choose the **Share** icon at upper-right, and then choose **Share dashboard**.

1. In the **Share dashboard** page that opens, toggle off the **Anyone on the internet (public)** switch in the **Enable access for** section at bottom-left.

   This action will remove public access to the dashboard. It will now only be accessible to users that it has been shared with.

**To turn off public sharing settings for all dashboards in a Quick user account**

1. From the Amazon Quick start page, choose your user icon at upper right of your browser window, and then choose **Manage Quick**.

1. In the page that opens, scroll down to the **Permissions** section.

1. Choose **Public access to dashboards** at left.

1. On the page that opens, toggle off the **Anyone on the internet** switch.

   When you disable public sharing settings from the **Public sharing** menu, a pop-up will appear asking you to confirm your choice. Select **I have read and acknowledge this change** and then choose **Confirm** to confirm your choice.

   This action will remove public access to every dashboard on your account. Dashboards that were visible to anyone on the internet will now only be accessible to users that each dashboard has been shared with. Individual dashboards that have their public settings turned on will have a gray badge and the eye icon that appears on the **Dashboards** page will have a strike through it to indicate that the account level public settings are disabled and that the dashboard can't be viewed. It can take up to two minutes for a dashboard's public access to be revoked.

If your session capacity pricing subscription has expired, public sharing settings will be automatically removed across your account. Renew your subscription to restore access to public sharing settings.