QuickSight supports exploring datasets managed by Lake Formation permissions in Amazon S3 using Athena.
Both Standard and Enterprise edition users of QuickSight integrate with Lake Formation, but slightly differently.
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Enterprise edition – Grant fine-grained access control (FGAC) permissions to individual QuickSight users and groups to access databases and tables.
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Standard edition – Grant permissions to IAM roles to access databases and tables.
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By default, QuickSight uses a role named aws-quicksight-service-role-v0. You can also define custom roles with required permissions that enable QuickSight to access Athena.
For more information, see Authorizing connections through AWS Lake Formation
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