Ive been setting up Amazon QuickSight Spaces. I’ve got 13 groups synced via SCIM, IAM Identity Center configured, and a beautiful infrastructure-as-code setup ready to go.
Then I discover: QuickSight Spaces have *no API*.
Zero. Nada. Console-only.
So after automating user provisioning, group sync, and role assignments, I now have to manually click through the console to create 7 Spaces and configure their permissions. One. By. One.
This is the opposite of the famous 2002 Bezos API Mandate that made AWS what it is today. Remember rule #5? “All service interfaces must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable.”
Why does this matter?
• No repeatability - Can’t recreate in another region/account
• No version control - Configuration lives in screenshots
• No testing - Can’t validate in dev before prod
• No automation - Manual process every time
• No disaster recovery - Hope you documented everything
Everything-as-code isn’t just a buzzword. It’s about reliability, repeatability, and reducing human error. When we’re forced back into ClickOps for critical configuration, we lose all of that.
AWS: Please eat your own dogfood. Your customers are trying to follow your own best practices.
Hi @mrpackethead,
Thank you for your feedback; you are correct in that currently API’s are not available for the new Agentic AI features that have recently been introduced to the platform. To my understanding; this will not be a permanent limitation and is on their roadmap for future updates.
Either way, I’ll go ahead and tag this as a feature request to promote visibility to the AWS support team!
