Setting up Amazon QuickSight
In this part of the book, we will create an Amazon QuickSight account. By the end of this section, you will have set up the following:
- A QuickSight Enterprise account
- An author user
- A reader user
This part of the book will be completed using the QuickSight user interface and the AWS Management Console:
- To access QuickSight, first log in to the AWS Management Console. You will need to use a principal with elevated access. Since this is a non-production account, you can use an IAM user with the
AdministratorAccesspolicy attached. - Then, find and select Amazon QuickSight, located under the Analytics category. If this is a brand-new account that doesn't have Amazon QuickSight set up, we will get a prompt to sign up for the service. Select Sign up for QuickSight.
Figure 2.4 – Sign up for QuickSight
- Then, we will see the main options for account creation. First, we will need to...
