Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

In this post we discuss the process of creating a comprehensive view of AWS Network Firewall logs using Amazon QuickSight. We explain the steps and resources to construct a tailored analytics dashboard within QuickSight, enabling a better understanding of network events and traffic patterns. This approach aids in identifying anomalies, threats, and network events with fine-grained insights during troubleshooting.

Many organizations use OneLogin as their identity provider (IdP) to control and manage user authentication and authorization centrally. Amazon QuickSight can integrate with OneLogin through the use of single sign-on (SSO) and SAML 2.0 authentication. With this integration, users can access QuickSight using their existing OneLogin credentials, providing a seamless and secure authentication experience. In this post, we walk you through the steps to configure federated SSO to QuickSight with OneLogin as your IdP.

This blog post shows how data owners and business intelligence (BI) administrators can centrally manage fine-grained data permissions on Amazon Redshift tables and views and enforce them on all users in Amazon QuickSight with AWS IAM Identity Center trusted identity propagation.

Amazon QuickSight is an IAM Identity Center enabled application. Administrators can create a new QuickSight account and use IAM Identity Center for managing QuickSight users and groups. IAM Identity Center can store QuickSight user and group identities within IAM Identity Center itself as an identity store, or they can configure it with a third-party identity provider (IdP) used within their organization. Administrators can use groups in their IdP to assign QuickSight roles (administrator, author, and reader) to users. After they’re successfully authenticated via IdP, users can seamlessly access QuickSight dashboards either from the QuickSight application or as an embedded component within their business applications. Having QuickSight users and groups provisioned in an IdP also helps control authorization to QuickSight resources like dashboards and datasets.In this post, we discuss when you should use which type of instance, the benefits of using IAM Identity Center with QuickSight, how to configure an account instance, and how to use it to access QuickSight.

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » This is a guest post authored by Rishi Ranjan from Common Securitization Solutions. A joint venture of Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

Tenerity, an engagement company, helps over 2,000 client partners serve millions of customers and improve lifetime customer value with its reward platforms and programs. The company uses proprietary data analysis and technology to offer loyalty discounts and a consumer identity protection service to enhance brand loyalty and revenue. In this post, we discuss how Tenerity used Cloud Custodian and Amazon QuickSight to build our business intelligence (BI) dashboard to boost the organization’s efficiency and bottom line.

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » April 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon QuickSight is now an AWS IAM Identity Center enabled application. […]

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » This blog post is co-written with Ori Nakar from Imperva. In this post, we explain how Imperva’s solution enables users across […]

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 toward centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises and third-party. Many organizations use Keycloak as their identity provider […]

All your trusted BI capabilities of Amazon QuickSight now come with powerful new AI features that integrate chat agents, deep research, and automation in one seamless experience with Amazon Quick Suite! Learn more » This is a guest post by Carl Marrelli from SANS Institute. In this post, we go over how SANS Institute uses […]