Audience - Amazon QuickSight
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Audience

Use the following to help understand the context of the information provided in this section, and how it applies to your role. How you use Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) differs depending on the work that you do in Amazon QuickSight.

Service user – In some cases, you might use Amazon QuickSight to interact with data, analyses, and dashboards through the Amazon QuickSight by using the browser interface. In these cases, this section provides only background information for you. You don't directly interact with the IAM service, except if you use IAM to sign into Amazon QuickSight.

Amazon QuickSight administrator – If you're in charge of Amazon QuickSight resources at your company, you probably have full access to Amazon QuickSight. It's your job to determine which Amazon QuickSight features and resources your team members should access. If you have specialized requirements that you can't solve by using the Amazon QuickSight admin panel, then you can work with your administrator to create permissions policies for your Amazon QuickSight users. To learn more about IAM, read this page to understand the basic concepts of IAM. To learn more about how your company can use IAM with Amazon QuickSight, see Using Amazon QuickSight with IAM.

administrator – If you're an administrator, you might want to learn details about how you can write policies to manage access to Amazon QuickSight. To view examples of Amazon QuickSight identity-based policies that you can use in IAM, see IAM identity-based policies for Amazon QuickSight.