Accessing AWS Quicksight Dashboards

The Campus Cloud LZ has a variety of DataSets available for visualizing in the AWS buisness intelligence tool, Quicksight (QS). QS presents rich data visualizations via shared Dashboards.

Warning-Use Incognito window

or logout of the AWS Console, before logging directly in the Quicksight Portal. Othwerwise, you may errantly be authenticated to the Quicksight portal associated with the AWS account and Role you are currently logged into.

https://quicksight.aws.amazon.com/

You will be asked for the QuickSight account name - this is NOT your QS username !!!!!

QS account name = ucsb-quicksight-prod
Your QS user name = <ucsbnetid>@ucsb.edu

On the left-hand navigation Choose “Shard Folders” to see the Dashboards you have access to.

Requesting a Quicksight account

Please email info@cloud.ucsb.edu to request a QS account. In your email submit,

the AWS account(s) for which you are authorized and would like to see the available Dashboards
the type of data you are interested in:
- Cost & Usage Reports
- Trusted Advisor Finding
- Key Perforformance Indicators
- C-level Summary AWS Data