# AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess
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**Description**: Quicksight access to Athena API and S3 buckets used for Athena query results

`AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: December 09, 2016, 02:31 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:58 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v13 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "athena:BatchGetQueryExecution",
        "athena:CancelQueryExecution",
        "athena:GetCatalogs",
        "athena:GetExecutionEngine",
        "athena:GetExecutionEngines",
        "athena:GetNamespace",
        "athena:GetNamespaces",
        "athena:GetQueryExecution",
        "athena:GetQueryExecutions",
        "athena:GetQueryResults",
        "athena:GetQueryResultsStream",
        "athena:GetTable",
        "athena:GetTables",
        "athena:ListQueryExecutions",
        "athena:RunQuery",
        "athena:StartQueryExecution",
        "athena:StopQueryExecution",
        "athena:ListWorkGroups",
        "athena:ListEngineVersions",
        "athena:GetWorkGroup",
        "athena:GetDataCatalog",
        "athena:GetDatabase",
        "athena:GetTableMetadata",
        "athena:ListDataCatalogs",
        "athena:ListDatabases",
        "athena:ListTableMetadata"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "glue:CreateDatabase",
        "glue:DeleteDatabase",
        "glue:GetCatalog",
        "glue:GetCatalogs",
        "glue:GetDatabase",
        "glue:GetDatabases",
        "glue:UpdateDatabase",
        "glue:CreateTable",
        "glue:DeleteTable",
        "glue:BatchDeleteTable",
        "glue:UpdateTable",
        "glue:GetTable",
        "glue:GetTables",
        "glue:BatchCreatePartition",
        "glue:CreatePartition",
        "glue:DeletePartition",
        "glue:BatchDeletePartition",
        "glue:UpdatePartition",
        "glue:GetPartition",
        "glue:GetPartitions",
        "glue:BatchGetPartition"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-athena-query-results-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "lakeformation:GetDataAccess"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)