Introducing multitenancy using namespaces
In this section, we will introduce the concept of multitenancy in Amazon QuickSight. Based on what we have learned so far, a user that owns a QuickSight asset can share the resource with any other registered user in the account. However, there are use cases where a single QuickSight account needs to support multiple tenants.
Understanding multitenancy
QuickSight offers features that allow developers to build multi-tenant business intelligence (BI) platforms. Due to its cloud-native architecture, QuickSight scales automatically depending on the number of users. This feature, coupled with QuickSight's embedding capabilities and its API actions that can be accessed programmatically, helps developers to implement multi-tenant BI platforms.
A key characteristic of a multi-tenant platform is that tenants don't interact with each other, which effectively prevents a tenant from granting (or revoking) access to users belonging to...
