QuickSight Namespace

The QuickSight Namespace CDK application is used to configure and deploy following resources:

1. IAM roles suitable for federation into the Namespace
2. Quicksight Namespaces
3. Quicksight Users
4. Quicksight Groups
5. Moves the Quicksight User in Namespace and Group

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Deployed Resources and Compliance Details

QuickSight Namespace - Creates a QuickSight Namepsace via Custom Resource

• Can be used to support multi-tennancy within a single QS/AWS account
• Each namespace has it's own users and groups

QuickSight Namespace Roles - Creates IAM roles suitable for federation into the Namespace based on roles section in the config

QuickSight Namespace User Lambda and EventBridge Trigger - Watches for new users created using the Namespace roles(refer roles section in the config) and automatically moves them into the namespace from the default namespace. Also, creates Quicksight Groups and assigns the QS users into groups.

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Configuration

MDAA Config

Add the following snippet to your mdaa.yaml under the modules: section of a domain/env in order to use this module:

          quicksight-namespace: # Module Name can be customized
            module_path: "@aws-mdaa/quicksight-namespace" # Must match module NPM package name
            module_configs:
              - ./quicksight-namespace.yaml # Filename/path can be customized

Module Config (./quicksight-namespace.yaml)

Config Schema Docs

# Used to configure SAML federations
federations:
  authhub: # Should be descriptive and unique
    # This URL will be the redirect target after SAML tokens are obtained
    url: https://{{region}}.quicksight.aws.amazon.com/sn/auth/signin?enable-sso=1
    # This is the arn of the IAM Identity Provider
    providerArn: arn:{{partition}}:iam::{{account}}:saml-provider/sample-org-dev-instance1-roles-new-federation
    roles:
      sampleReaders: 
        qsGroups: ["READERS"] #User will be part of these QS Groups
        qsUserType: "READER" #Each User will only be a READER | AUTHOR in QS 
      sampleAuthors: 
        qsGroups: ["AUTHORS", "READERS", "PUBLISHERS"] 
        qsUserType: "AUTHOR" 
      samplePublishers: 
        qsGroups: ["PUBLISHERS", "READERS"] 
        qsUserType: "AUTHOR"

# Glue resources to which namespace roles will be granted IAM access.
glueResourceAccess:
  - database/sample_org*