Overview

Quick Sight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are.

The AWS Quick Sight Developer Guide provides usage examples of API operations for AWS Quick Sight and procedural walkthroughs of common tasks. The guide also provides examples showing how to work with Quick Sight using AWS software development kits (SDKs). By using AWS SDKs, you can access AWS Quick Sight from your preferred programming language.

Currently, you can use the AWS Quick Sight API to manage users and groups. In Enterprise Edition, you can also use the API to embed dashboards in your webpage or app.

To monitor the calls made to the AWS Quick Sight API for your account, use AWS CloudTrail. CloudTrail can monitor calls made by the AWS Management Console, command line tools, and other services. For more information, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

Following, you can find out how to get started using the AWS Quick Sight API:

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. There are two ways to sign up for AWS. If you want complete control over account configuration and where your content is stored, or if you have regulated workloads such as HIPAA or FedRAMP, use Sign up for AWS (advanced). If you are a new user and want to use a login you already own to sign in to AWS and create an AWS environment with preconfigured defaults in select AWS Regions, use Sign up for AWS.

Are you a first-time AWS Quick Sight user?

If you are a first-time user of AWS Quick Sight, we recommend that you begin by reading the following sections in the AWS Quick User Guide: