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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

You're reading from   Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight Develop stunning data visualizations and machine learning-driven insights with Amazon QuickSight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079297
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight and the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the AWS Analytics Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight 4. Chapter 3: Preparing Data with Amazon QuickSight 5. Chapter 4: Developing Visuals and Dashboards 6. Section 2: Advanced Dashboarding and Insights
7. Chapter 5: Building Interactive Dashboards 8. Chapter 6: Working with ML Capabilities and Insights 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Embedded Analytics 10. Section 3: Advanced Topics and Management
11. Chapter 8: Understanding the QuickSight API 12. Chapter 9: Managing QuickSight Permissions and Usage 13. Chapter 10: Multitenancy in Amazon QuickSight 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing QuickSight permissions

In this section, we will learn how to configure user permissions against Quicksight resources. First, let's introduce the fundamental topics we need to understand when setting up permissions:

  • Principal: An AWS principal is the user (or group of users) or application that needs to access AWS resources.
  • Action: Actions define the set of API operations that a principal is allowed or denied. For example, in QuickSight, the DeleteDataSet action deletes a dataset. To see a full list of QuickSight actions, refer to the AWS Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/reference/list_amazonquicksight.html#amazonquicksight-actions-as-permissions.
  • Resource: For most actions, we can narrow down the scope of a policy to a specific resource(s). Typically, a single resource has its own unique Amazon Resource Number (arn).
  • Condition: AWS allows you to define access based on specific conditions. For example, a condition...
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