Overview

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

To get the enhanced connector for AWS QuickSight, contact the Forward Deployed Engineering team at Alation.

The connector should be used to extract AWS QuickSight objects, such as datasources, datasets, dashboards, and analyses. After extraction, users will be able to search and find AWS QuickSight objects through the Alation catalog, as well as use the full set of features that Alation offers for BI sources.

The connector is compatible with Alation version 2022.4.2 or newer.

Team

The following administrators are required to install this connector:

  • AWS QuickSight administrator:

    • Creates an IAM user and roles to authorize read-only access to the data

    • Assists in collecting the necessary configuration information from AWS

  • Alation Server Admin:

    • Installs the connector

    • Creates an AWS QuickSight BI source

    • Configures the AWS QuickSight BI source

Scope

The table below lists the features supported by the AWS QuickSight enhanced connector.

Feature

Scope

Availability

Authentication

Basic Authentication

Authentication using an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user account

Yes

Metadata Extraction (MDE)

Default MDE

  • Selective extraction

  • Full extraction

Yes

Lineage

Automatic lineage generation

Automatic lineage generation based on extracted metadata

Yes

Object Mapping

AWS QuickSight Object

Alation Object

Datasource

BI Folder

Dataset

BI Datasource

Analysis

BI Report

Dashboard

BI Report