Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) Machine Learning service that you can use to deliver simple insights to your colleagues, no matter where they are. Amazon QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines information from various sources.
We are going to cover the below-mentioned topics in this blog:
- What is Amazon QuickSight?
- Why QuickSight?
- How Amazon QuickSight works?
- QuickSight Terminology
- Amazon QuickSight Features
- Amazon QuickSight Benefits
- Amazon QuickSight Pricing
- Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight enables everyone in your organization to understand your data by asking natural language questions, exploring interactive dashboards, or automatically searching for patterns and outliers using machine learning.
QuickSight can combine AWS data, third-party data, big data, spreadsheet data, SaaS data, B2B data, and other sources into a single data dashboard.
Amazon QuickSight, as a fully managed cloud-based service, offers enterprise-grade security, global availability, and built-in redundancy. It also includes the user-management tools required to scale from 10 to 10,000 users, with no infrastructure to deploy or manage.
QuickSight allows decision-makers to explore and interpret data in an interactive visual environment. They can access dashboards securely from any device on your network, including mobile devices.
Why QuickSight?
People in your organization make decisions that affect your business every day. When they have the right information at the right time, they can make decisions that move your company forward.
Some of the advantages of using Amazon QuickSight for analytics, data visualization, and reporting are as follows:
- SPICE, the in-memory engine, responds with lightning speed.
- There are no license fees to pay upfront, and the total cost of ownership is low (TCO).
- No need to install an application for collaborative analytics.
- Combine multiple types of data into a single analysis.
- Create and share a dashboard with your analysis.
- A dashboard contains control features.
- There’s no need to manage granular database permissions because dashboard viewers can only see what you share.
How Amazon QuickSight Works
You can use Amazon QuickSight to access data and prepare it for reporting. It saves your prepared data as a direct query or in SPICE memory. For analysis, you can use a variety of data sources. When creating an analysis, the typical workflow is as follows:
- Make a fresh analysis.
- Publish new or existing datasets.
- To make the first chart, select fields. QuickSight will recommend the best visualization for you.
- Increase the number of charts, tables, or insights in the analysis. Rearrange and resize them on one or more sheets. Add variables, custom controls, colors, additional pages (called sheets), and more with extended features.
- Create a dashboard to share the analysis with others.
The basic workflow is depicted in the diagram below.
QuickSight Terminology
- The process of transforming data for use in analysis is known as data preparation. This includes making the following changes:
- Filtering data so that you can concentrate on what is important to you.
- Fields are renamed to make them easier to read.
- Changing data types to make them more useful.
- Including calculated fields to improve analysis.
- Developing SQL queries for data refinement.
- QuickSight’s in-memory engine is SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine). SPICE is designed to perform advanced calculations and serve data quickly.
- Data analysis is the foundation for developing data visualizations, which are graphical representations of your data. Each analysis includes a set of visualizations that you can arrange and customize.
- Data visualization is a graphical representation of data. It is also known as a visual. Diagrams, charts, graphs, and tables are all examples of visualizations.
- Machine learning (ML) Insights recommend narrative add-ons based on an analysis of your data. You can select one of the options from the list, such as forecasting or anomaly (outlier) detection.
- A sheet is a page that displays a collection of visuals and insights. You can add more sheets to your analysis and have them work separately or together.
- A dashboard is a publicly available version of an analysis. You can share it with other Amazon QuickSight users for reporting purposes.
Amazon QuickSight Features
- QuickSight Q enables BI for everyone.
Ask conversational questions about your data and use Q’s ML-powered engine to get relevant visualizations without time-consuming data preparation from authors and administrators.
- Use ML insights to perform advanced analytics.
Using AWS’ machine learning expertise, you can uncover hidden insights in your data, perform accurate forecasting and what-if analysis, and add easy-to-understand natural language narratives to dashboards.
- Integrate analytics to distinguish your applications.
To differentiate user experience and unlock new monetization opportunities, easily embed interactive visualizations and dashboards, sophisticated dashboard authoring, or natural language query capabilities in your applications.
Amazon QuickSight Benefits
Connect and scale all of your data
- Connect to your entire data set in AWS, third-party clouds, or on-premises.
- SPICE in-memory storage allows thousands of users to explore data simultaneously.
- Combine data from various sources and build complex data models for governed data sharing.
Build customizable dashboards
- Dashboard design that is pixel-perfect for customized, use-case-specific dashboards
- Send customized email reports and alerts to end users.
- QuickSight’s iOS, Android, and mobile web access allow for on-the-go access.
Leverage ML integrations for insights
- Anomaly Detection analyses all of your data in real-time for anomalies and variations.
- Forecast business metrics and run interactive what-if scenarios with point-and-click.
- Auto-Narratives that can be customized and woven into dashboards to provide users with more context.
Enable true self-service BI for everyone
- Q allows end users to delve deep into data by asking simple questions without requiring BI training.
- QuickSight’s 100% web-based authoring interface allows for easy visual analysis of data.
- Integrate QuickSight capabilities into applications to provide data-driven user experiences.
Native AWS services integrations
- Private VPC connectivity for AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Exasol, Amazon RDS, and other services.
- Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena native IAM permissions with fine-grained access control for serverless data exploration
- Amazon SageMaker integration enables the simple integration of sophisticated ML models without the need for complex data pipelines.
Amazon QuickSight Pricing
In direct contradiction to the name, you may need to take a slow look over QuickSight’s pricing to determine how and what you’ll be charged for.
Amazon QuickSight isn’t free, but there are several pricing options based on your needs.
The standard edition of AWS QuickSight costs
Let’s start with the price of the standard edition.
When you first begin, you will be assigned one free user with 1 GB of AWS SPICE capacity. Following that, user pricing will be $9 per user per month with an annual subscription.
If you choose to pay on a monthly basis, the cost will be $12 per user per month. You must also pay for SPICE capacity. Fortunately, AWS provides each user with 10 GB of SPICE capacity for free upfront. However, any additional capacity comes at a cost of 25 cents per GB.
The price of AWS QuickSight enterprise edition
As with the standard edition, you’ll be given one free user and one GB of SPICE capacity. Following that, the pricing of QuickSight’s enterprise edition is a little more complicated, and it is divided into two user categories: readers and authors.
A QuickSight reader is someone who enjoys reading interactive dashboards. Readers can access shared dashboards by logging in. They can use a web browser or a mobile app to filter data, drill down to details, or export data as a CSV file.
Authors, on the other hand, can configure data imports, create and publish interactive dashboards, configure email reports, and much more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AWS QuickSight SaaS?
Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it simple to connect to your data, build interactive dashboards, and share them with tens of thousands of users, either directly from QuickSight or via SaaS apps.
What is a QuickSight dashboard?
A dashboard is a read-only snapshot of an analysis that you can share for reporting purposes with other Amazon QuickSight users. A dashboard saves the configuration of the analysis when it is published, including filtering, parameters, controls, and sort order.
Is AWS QuickSight free?
Yes, QuickSight offers a 30-day Q free trial for existing Enterprise Edition customers, which waives the $250/month base fee.
What is AWS SPICE?
QuickSight’s in-memory engine is SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine). It is designed to perform advanced calculations and serve data quickly. The Data stored in SPICE is encrypted at rest in the Enterprise edition. See Data encryption in Amazon QuickSight for more information.
What is the difference between QuickSight vs Tableau?
Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data; Tableau: Tableau helps people see and understand data. Tableau can assist anyone in seeing and understanding their data.
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