Generating an embedded dashboard URL

In this section, we will use the QuickSight CLI to generate an embedded dashboard URL that, for this example, we will display on a web browser. Setting up authentication and the web server is outside the scope of this book. In Chapter 2, Introduction to Amazon QuickSight, we created a reader user in our QuickSight account. First, let's verify the details of this user and get their unique resource number:

1. Log in to the AWS console as a QuickSight or AWS admin and open AWS CloudShell.
2. To view the details of the reader user, use the describe-user CLI command:

   $aws quicksight describe-user --user-name reader --aws-account-id <aws account id> --namespace default --region us-east-1

Verify that the user has been found. The response should look similar to the following:

{
    "Status": 200,
    "User": {
        "Arn&quot...