How to manage quicksight dashboard access

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Hi Team,

I am an internal QuickSight user at AWS. Our team has created a dashboard specifically for a group of sales managers. We have implemented RLS using our own dataset to manage data access. Currently, we are utilizing ANT group to manage dashboard access; however, the current ANT group logic can not fully meet our requirements.

Are there any alternative approaches available to manage dashboard access more effectively. Is it possible for us to develop and implement our own custom logic for access control?

I would greatly appreciate any insights or recommendations you can provide on this matter. I’m also open to scheduling a call to discuss further if needed.

Thank you,
Cindy

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Hi @Cindy ,

Yes, there are other alternatives to manage dashboard access:

  1. IAM to manage access to Quicksight - instead of using ANT groups, you can define IAM-based policies to control access to Quicksight.
  2. Custom Access Control for RLS - You can create a RLS dataset in Quicksight which you can define granular access with. Here is documentation on how to do so.

Let me know if this helps!
Arnav

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Thanks for your reply. We have created RLS dataset to restrict the dataset access on quicksight. I was asking about dashboard access. Are there any ways to create our own logic to grant dashbaord access?

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Got it! Sorry for the confusion, in that case the easiest way to use custom logic to grant dashboard access would be to use IAM Role-Based Access Control for the dashboards.

Using IAM with Quicksight

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Hi @Cindy,
It’s been awhile since we last heard from you; did you have any additional questions regarding your initial topic?

If we do not hear back within the next 3 business days, I’ll go ahead and close out this topic.

Thank you!

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Hi @Cindy,
Since we haven’t heard back, I’ll go ahead and close out this topic. However, if you have any additional questions, feel free to create a new post in the community and link this discussion if it contains relevant information that may be needed.

Thank you!