Recreating Quicksight

While deleting and recreating your QuickSight account to meet company standards and change authentication methods is possible, it's important to note that this process will not automatically retain your existing dashboards and data. However, you can take steps to preserve your dashboard data and configurations.

To retain your dashboard data when recreating QuickSight:

1. Before deleting your current QuickSight account, you should export your dashboards and analyses. You can do this by using the "Save As" feature to create copies of your dashboards as analyses.

2. For each dashboard you want to preserve:

   • Open the dashboard
   • Choose "Save As" from the upper right corner
   • Give the new analysis a name
   • This creates an analysis based on the dashboard

3. After creating analyses for all your dashboards, you can export these analyses. The exported files can be saved to an S3 bucket.

4. Once you've recreated your QuickSight account with the new name and Identity Center authentication, you can import the saved analyses from S3.

5. After importing the analyses, you can then publish them as new dashboards.

This process allows you to recreate your QuickSight setup while preserving your dashboard configurations and data. However, keep in mind that you may need to reconfigure some settings, such as sharing permissions and scheduled refreshes, in the new QuickSight account.

Regarding the third stack where you pass the QuickSight name as a parameter, you will need to update this parameter with your new QuickSight account name after recreation.

Remember that while this method helps retain your dashboard configurations and data, it doesn't automatically transfer all account-level settings. You'll need to manually reconfigure aspects like data source connections, user permissions, and any custom themes or templates in your new QuickSight account.
Sources
Copying an Amazon QuickSight dashboard - Amazon QuickSight
Migrating QuickSight dashboards from one AWS account to another | AWS re:Post

We ran into a similar situation when trying to rename QuickSight resources to align with naming standards. Unfortunately, QuickSight doesn’t support renaming dashboards or the account name directly — especially if you didn’t initially enable IAM Identity Center.

If you delete and recreate QuickSight with a new name and enable Identity Center, you’ll have to rebuild the dashboards manually — you can’t retain dashboards or their configuration just by reuploading the data to S3.

That said, here’s what you can do:

You can export the datasets (if they're SPICE datasets) to S3 manually or rebuild them from the original source.

Dashboard configurations themselves (layout, visuals, calculated fields) are not exportable or backed up in S3 — they are tied to the original QuickSight account and namespace.

If you're passing the QuickSight name as a parameter in the CloudFormation stack (like in a dashboard URL or resource ARN), deleting and recreating will change that — so downstream links or resources may break.