Identity management in Amazon QuickSight - Amazon QuickSight
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Identity management in Amazon QuickSight

   Applies to: Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 
   Intended audience: System administrators and Amazon QuickSight administrators 

Amazon QuickSight is an Amazon IAM Identity Center enabled application. We recommend that you integrate new QuickSight subscriptions with for identity management.

Use IAM Identity Center to configure an external identity provider or to create users in the IAM Identity Center identity store. When QuickSight is configured with IAM Identity Center, users and groups created in IAM Identity Center are used to share assets and to assign users to roles in QuickSight.

IAM Identity Center is supported in QuickSight Enterprise Edition subscriptions. For more information about IAM Identity Center, see Amazon IAM Identity Center.

Following is a list of other supported identity configurations in Amazon QuickSight:

  • IAM (Standard and Enterprise editions)

  • IAM federation (Standard and Enterprise editions)

  • Amazon Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition only)

Note

In the regions listed below, QuickSight accounts can only use IAM Identity Center for identity and access management.

  • af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)

  • ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

  • eu-south-1 Europe (Milan)

  • eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)