Before we get started on loading data from the various sources, we first need to grant permissions to QuickSight to access your AWS resources. Follow these steps to grant access:
From the QuickSight home page, select Manage QuickSight.
Click on Account settings on the left-hand side menu.
Click on Edit AWS permissions as follows:
Figure 2.5: AWS account permissions
This will show the Edit QuickSight read-only access to AWS resources, as shown in the next screenshot. From here you can grant/revoke access to QuickSight from Redshift, RDS, S3, and Athena sources. After you make changes, do remember to click on Apply.
Figure 2.6: Grant access to all sources
Now we can start loading data from various sources and create new datasets in QuickSight.