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As of August 2023, Amazon QuickSight is now an AWS IAM Identity Center enabled application. This capability allows administrators who subscribe to QuickSight to use IAM Identity Center to enable their users to log in with Azure AD and other external identity providers. For more information, see Simplify business intelligence identity management with Amazon QuickSight and […]

At AWS re:Invent 2022, we announced the general availability of two new Amazon QuickSight visuals: small multiples and text boxes. We are excited to add another new visual to QuickSight: radar charts. With radar charts, you can compare two or more items across multiple variables in QuickSight. In this post, we explore radar charts, its […]

Update March 2023 – This solution is now provided as an integrated optional component of PCA v0.5.0 and later, and can be enabled during PCA stack deployment or stack update. Organizations with contact centers benefit from advanced analytics on their call recordings to gain important product feedback, improve contact center efficiency, and identify coaching opportunities […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast and cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization without any servers or infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into applications and portals to deliver insights to external stakeholders. Additionally, with Amazon QuickSight Q, end-users can simply ask […]

In this post, we show how to use Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena Federated Query to build dashboards and visualizations on data that is stored in Microsoft Azure Synapse databases. Organizations today use data stores that are best suited for the applications they build. Additionally, they may also continue to use some of their legacy […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. We’re excited to announce the availability […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all of their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use Ping One […]

Amazon QuickSight supports identity federation through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) in both Standard and Enterprise editions. With federation, you can manage users using your enterprise identity provider (IdP) and pass them to QuickSight at login. Such IdPs include Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services, Ping One Federation Server, and Okta.

This post provides step-by-step guidance to configure federated single sign-on (SSO) between QuickSight and Okta. We also demonstrate ways to assign QuickSight roles based on Okta membership. Administrators can publish QuickSight applications in the Okta Portal, enabling users to SSO to QuickSight using their Okta credentials.