Step 1: Set up permissions - Amazon QuickSight

Step 1: Set up permissions

Important

Amazon QuickSight has new APIs for embedding analytics: GenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser and GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser.

You can still use the GetDashboardEmbedUrl and GetSessionEmbedUrl APIs to embed dashboards and the QuickSight console, but they do not contain the latest embedding capabilities. For the latest up-to-date embedding experience, see Embedding QuickSight analytics into your applications.

 Applies to: Enterprise Edition 
   Intended audience: Amazon QuickSight developers 

In the following section, you can find out how to set up permissions for the backend application or web server. This task requires administrative access to IAM.

Each user who accesses a dashboard assumes a role that gives them Amazon QuickSight access and permissions to the dashboard. To make this possible, create an IAM role in your AWS account. Associate an IAM policy with the role to provide permissions to any user who assumes it.

The following sample policy provides these permissions for use with IdentityType=ANONYMOUS. For this approach to work, you also need a session pack, or session capacity pricing, on your AWS account. Otherwise, when a user tries to access the dashboard, the error UnsupportedPricingPlanException is returned. 

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
              "quicksight:GetDashboardEmbedUrl",
              "quickSight:GetAnonymousUserEmbedUrl"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Your application's IAM identity must have a trust policy associated with it to allow access to the role that you just created. This means that when a user accesses your application, your application can assume the role on the user's behalf to open the dashboard. The following example shows a role called QuickSightEmbeddingAnonymousPolicy, which has the sample policy preceding as its resource. 

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
        "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::11112222333:role/QuickSightEmbeddingAnonymousPolicy"
    }
}

For more information regarding trust policies, see Temporary security credentials in IAM in the IAM User Guide.