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Get Identity Context

quicksight_get_identity_context R Documentation

Retrieves the identity context for a Quick Sight user in a specified namespace, allowing you to obtain identity tokens that can be used with identity-enhanced IAM role sessions to call identity-aware APIs

Description

Retrieves the identity context for a Quick Sight user in a specified namespace, allowing you to obtain identity tokens that can be used with identity-enhanced IAM role sessions to call identity-aware APIs.

Currently, you can call the following APIs with identity-enhanced Credentials

  • start_dashboard_snapshot_job

  • describe_dashboard_snapshot_job

  • describe_dashboard_snapshot_job_result

Supported Authentication Methods

This API supports Quick Sight native users, IAM federated users, and Active Directory users. For Quick Sight users authenticated by Amazon Web Services Identity Center, see Identity Center documentation on identity-enhanced IAM role sessions.

Supported Regions

The GetIdentityContext API works only in regions that support at least one of these identity types:

  • Amazon Quick Sight native identity

  • IAM federated identity

  • Active Directory

To use this API successfully, call it in the same region where your user's identity resides. For example, if your user's identity is in us-east-1, make the API call in us-east-1. For more information about managing identities in Amazon Quick Sight, see Identity and access management in Amazon Quick Sight in the Amazon Quick Sight User Guide.

Getting Identity-Enhanced Credentials

To obtain identity-enhanced credentials, follow these steps:

  • Call the GetIdentityContext API to retrieve an identity token for the specified user.

  • Use the identity token with the STS AssumeRole API to obtain identity-enhanced IAM role session credentials.

Usage with STS AssumeRole

The identity token returned by this API should be used with the STS AssumeRole API to obtain credentials for an identity-enhanced IAM role session. When calling AssumeRole, include the identity token in the ProvidedContexts parameter with ProviderArn set to arn:aws:iam::aws:contextProvider/QuickSight and ContextAssertion set to the identity token received from this API.

The assumed role must allow the sts:SetContext action in addition to sts:AssumeRole in its trust relationship policy. The trust policy should include both actions for the principal that will be assuming the role.

Usage

quicksight_get_identity_context(AwsAccountId, UserIdentifier, Namespace,
  SessionExpiresAt, ContextRegion)

Arguments

AwsAccountId

[required] The ID for the Amazon Web Services account that the user whose identity context you want to retrieve is in. Currently, you use the ID for the Amazon Web Services account that contains your Quick Sight account.
UserIdentifier

[required] The identifier for the user whose identity context you want to retrieve.
Namespace

The namespace of the user that you want to get identity context for. This parameter is required when the UserIdentifier is specified using Email or UserName.
SessionExpiresAt

The timestamp at which the session will expire.
ContextRegion

The region in which the context is to be used. Use this parameter to obtain an identity context for cross-region use.

The specified region must meet the following conditions:

  • The region must be in the same Amazon Web Services partition as the region you are calling from. Cross-partition requests are not supported. For example, you cannot specify a region in the aws-cn partition when calling from a region in the aws partition.

  • It must be a valid Amazon QuickSight supported region.

  • The calling customer account must be enabled in the specified context region.

  • This parameter is not supported when calling from an opt-in region.

Value

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  Status = 123,
  RequestId = "string",
  Context = "string"
)

Request syntax

svc$get_identity_context(
  AwsAccountId = "string",
  UserIdentifier = list(
    UserName = "string",
    Email = "string",
    UserArn = "string"
  ),
  Namespace = "string",
  SessionExpiresAt = as.POSIXct(
    "2015-01-01"
  ),
  ContextRegion = "string"
)