Inter-network traffic privacy in Amazon QuickSight
To use Amazon QuickSight, users need access to the internet. They also need access to a compatible browser or a mobile device with the Amazon QuickSight mobile app installed. They don't need access to the data sources they want to analyze. This access is handled inside Amazon QuickSight. User connections to Amazon QuickSight are protected through the use of SSL. So that users can access Amazon QuickSight, allow access to HTTPS and Web Sockets Secure (wss://) protocol.
You can use a Microsoft AD connector and single sign-on (IAM Identity Center) in a corporate network environment. You can further restrict access through the identity provider. Optionally, you can also use MFA.
Amazon QuickSight accesses data sources by using connection information supplied by the data source owner in Amazon QuickSight. Connections are protected both between Amazon QuickSight and on-premises applications and between Amazon QuickSight and other Amazon resources within the same Amazon Web Services Region. For connections to any source, the data source must allow connections from Amazon QuickSight.
Traffic between service and on-premises clients and applications
You have two connectivity options between your private network and Amazon:
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An Amazon Site-to-Site VPN connection. For more information, see What is Amazon site-to-site VPN?
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An Amazon Direct Connect connection. For more information, see What is Amazon direct connect?
If you are using Amazon API operations to interact with Amazon QuickSight through the network, clients must support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0. We recommend TLS 1.2. Clients must also support cipher suites with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), such as Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) or Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral (ECDHE). Most modern systems such as Java 7 and later support these modes. You must sign requests using an access key ID and a secret access key that are associated with an IAM principal, or you can use the Amazon Security Token Service (STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.
Traffic between Amazon resources in the same region
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint for Amazon QuickSight is a logical entity within a VPC that allows connectivity only to Amazon QuickSight. The VPC routes requests to Amazon QuickSight and routes responses back to the VPC. For more information, see the following:
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VPC endpoints in the Amazon VPC User Guide