Controlling resources using the QuickSight API

In this section, we will learn how to control QuickSight resources using the QuickSight API. This section is not meant to be a full reference guide to the QuickSight API, nor is it going to cover every possible action that can be done using the API. For a full reference guide to the QuickSight API, please refer to the QuickSight documentation:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

This section will provide you with practical hands-on examples of using the API to control QuickSight resources. These examples will give you a solid understanding of the types of activities that can be completed using the API, which in turn will help you to manage your QuickSight environment.

Our first example will be to learn how to set up a data source using the QuickSight API.

Setting up a dataset using the CLI

In Chapter 2, Introduction to Amazon QuickSight, we learned how to create data sources and datasets...