What Is Amazon QuickSight?

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are. Amazon QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources.

Why QuickSight?

Benefits of using Amazon QuickSight for analytics, data visualization, and reporting:

• The in-memory engine, called SPICE, responds with blazing speed.
• No upfront costs for licenses and a low total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Collaborative analytics with no need to install an application.
• Combine a variety of data into one analysis.
• Publish and share your analysis as a dashboard.
• Control features available in a dashboard.
• No need to manage granular database permissions—dashboard viewers can see only what you share.

How Amazon QuickSight Works?

Using Amazon QuickSight, you can access data and prepare it for use in reporting. It saves your prepared data either in SPICE memory or as a direct query. You can use a variety of data sources for analysis. When you create an analysis, the typical workflow looks like this:

Step 1 – Create a new analysis.

Step 2 – Add new or existing datasets.

Step 3 – Choose fields to create the first chart. QuickSight automatically suggests the best visualization.

Step 4 – Add more charts, tables, or insights to the analysis. Resize and rearrange them on one or more sheets. Use extended features to add variables, custom controls, colors, additional pages (called sheets), and more.

Step 5 – Publish the analysis as a dashboard to share it with other people.

 Basic workflow