AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess

Summary

Quicksight access to Athena API and S3 buckets used for Athena query results

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v13

Created

2016-12-09

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

athena, glue, lakeformation, s3

Control-plane actions (52)

By access level: 4 List, 1 Permissions management, 29 Read, 18 Write.

Data-plane actions (5)

By access level: 2 List, 1 Read, 2 Write.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants 20 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Related policies

Same service

• AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy
• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AmazonAppFlowFullAccess
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonAthenaFullAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy
• AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonChimeSDKMessagingServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneDomainExecutionRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneFullAccess
• AmazonDataZoneFullUserAccess
• AmazonDataZoneGlueManageAccessRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "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": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v13, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_awsquicksightathenaaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess
• Report a data issue