QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, serverless business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and distribute interactive dashboards and reports.

Key Features:

• Creates interactive dashboards and visualizations

• Supports ad-hoc analysis

• Offers machine learning insights

• Provides embedded analytics capabilities

Use Cases:

• Business data visualizations

• Ad-hoc data analytics

• Obtaining data-driven business insights

• Embedding analytics in applications

Data Integration:

• Connects with various AWS data sources:

  • Amazon RDS

  • Amazon Aurora

  • Amazon Athena

  • Amazon S3

  • Amazon Redshift

• Supports many third-party databases and applications

Performance and Security:

• SPICE: Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine

  • Performs advanced calculations and renders visualizations rapidly

• Row-Level Security (RLS) for all editions

• Column-Level Security (CLS) in the Enterprise edition

Pricing:

• Based on per-session and per-user models

• Options for authors (content creators) and readers (consumers)

User Management:

• Create individual QuickSight users

• Enterprise edition allows creation of groups

• Users and groups are specific to QuickSight, separate from IAM

Dashboard Features:

• Save and manage dashboard configurations

• Apply filters and parameters

• Share dashboards and analysis results with users and groups

• Schedule email reports

Advanced Capabilities:

• Natural language querying (Q&A)

• Anomaly detection and forecasting using machine learning

• Custom actions for interactivity

Deployment Options:

• Standard Edition: For individual and team use

• Enterprise Edition: For organizational-wide deployments with advanced security and governance features