Access S3 Tables in QuickSight without Athena

Over the summer AWS announced S3 Tables buckets were natively supported by QuickSight (yes, I’m still calling it QuickSight, not Quick). This meant simplifying a process I talked about earlier on using Athena as a middle-layer between QuickSight and S3 Tables when creating data sources. I just got the time to give it a go, and I think the AWS docs could use some clarifying. The S3 docs, Quick docs and the announcement blog all list out slightly different steps for getting started. Here’s a TL;DR, like last time, on what you need to do: Create your S3 Tables bucket, namespace and table. Ensure your S3 Tables bucket has AWS analytics services integration enabled. Grant your QuickSight service role permission through IAM. Add S3 Tables as a data source in QuickSight. Add a dataset from your previously created data source and use Direct Query or SPICE to query your S3 tables. Verify you can use your table dataset from an analysis. Creating the S3 Table Like last time, the S3 Tables…