Need QuickSight Admin Console template in eu-west-1 (template / placeholders / CFN or CLI)

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Hello QuickSight community,

Following this blog : Measure the adoption of your Amazon QuickSight dashboards and view your BI portfolio in a single pane of glass | AWS Business Intelligence Blog
I want to deploy everything with terraform. I already have the two first template done, (glue jobs and athena tables).

I’m now trying to deploy the QuickSight Admin Console analysis based on the public template
admin-console-qs-analysis-template-2025.

Here is my situation and what I’ve already tried:

Context

  • QuickSight Enterprise

  • Namespace: default

  • Region: eu-west-1

  • Datasets already exist (SPICE) and are working when created manually via the UI

  • Athena tables exist and are valid

Problem

  • The public template exists only in us-east-1

  • The QuickSight UI no longer exposes Templates (no “Templates” section, no “Use template”, no import)

  • Creating the analysis via CLI fails in eu-west-1 because the template is not available in that region

  • Deploying the CloudFormation template in us-east-1 fails unless the Athena schema and columns match exactly (very strict validation), which makes it hard to bootstrap just to extract the analysis definition

Important limitation
As far as I understand, there is:

  • :cross_mark: no way to import an analysis/dashboard from a CSV or JSON file

  • :cross_mark: no UI-based template import anymore

  • :white_check_mark: only CLI / CloudFormation are supported for templates

:red_question_mark: What I am looking for

I’m looking for one of the following, ideally in eu-west-1:

  1. A private/public? QuickSight template equivalent to
    admin-console-qs-analysis-template-2025, created in eu-west-1

  2. The template ID (and region) so I can create the analysis via CLI

  3. The output (or a sanitized version) of:

    aws quicksight describe-template

    or

    aws quicksight describe-analysis-definition

  4. Alternatively, a CloudFormation or CLI example that is known to work in eu-west-1

I am not looking for:

  • a PDF export

  • screenshots

  • a CSV/JSON “export” of the dashboard (I understand this is not supported)

:bullseye: Goal

My goal is to:

  • deploy the Admin Console analysis programmatically

  • without manually recreating dozens of visuals

  • and without relying on us-east-1–only public templates

Any help, confirmation, or working reference would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @UlysseCarpentier ,

Quick Sight dashboard templates are visible across regions and you should ideally be able to access the template mentioned above from eu-west-1 (except if you are using gov cloud partition).

Please make sure that the role you are using has got permissions to quicksight:DescribeTemplate on all resources. You can also get the template definition by running the following command. Note - You do not need to have credentials of the account mentioned below. You can run this as long as you current role (in your account) has got quicksight:DescribeTemplate permission.

aws quicksight describe-template-definition --aws-account-id 499080683179 --template-id admin-console-analysis-template-public-2025

Regards,

Arun Santhosh

Pr Quick SA