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This is a guest blog post by Best Western Hotels and Resorts. In their own words, “Best Western Hotels & Resorts is an award-winning global network of hotels located in over 100 countries and territories that offers accommodations for all types of travelers.” In this post, I discuss our journey to the cloud and what […]

This is a guest post from an Amazon QuickSight customer, Edmunds GovTech Over the past 30 years, Edmunds GovTech has grown to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to thousands of East Coast municipalities. We also serve cities and towns in 25 other states. In this blog, I’ll talk about how we used Amazon QuickSight […]

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.