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Level up your React app with Amazon QuickSight: How to embed your dashboard for anonymous access

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This article explains how to embed Amazon QuickSight dashboards in React applications for anonymous user access without AWS account credentials.

  • Uses API Gateway, Lambda, and IAM to generate anonymous embed URLs
  • Create IAM policy allowing GenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser action on dashboards
  • Lambda function generates embed URLs using QuickSight API
  • API Gateway invokes Lambda to provide dashboard URLs to React frontend
  • React app uses amazon-quicksight-embedding-sdk to display dashboards
  • Requires QuickSight session capacity pricing enabled
  • Supports switching between multiple dashboards via dropdown selector

This guide enables developers to securely share QuickSight dashboards with external users through embedded React applications without provisioning individual AWS accounts.



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