During the AWS re:invent 2020, a release caught the attention of the international community: Amazon QuickSight.
In this article, you will get to know all the details of this utility that powers the creation and analysis of data visualizations.
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What is and what is Amazon QuickSight for
In the Analytics lineup, AWS announced Amazon QuickSight, which is an Amazon Web Services utility that allows you to create and analyze visualizations of corporate customer data. The business intelligence service uses the Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (SPICE) to perform data calculations and create graphs quickly.
Amazon QuickSight reads data from AWS storage services to provide ad-hoc exploration and analysis in minutes. It also collects and formats data, moves it to SPICE and visualizes it.
By quickly visualizing data, QuickSight eliminates the need for AWS customers to perform manual extract, transform, and load operations.
Amazon QuickSight extracts and reads data from Amazon Aurora , Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Elastic MapReduce , and Amazon Kinesis.
The service also integrates with local databases, file uploads, and API-based data sources like Salesforce. QuickSight allows an end user to upload incremental data to an S3 file or bucket. The service can also transform unstructured data using a Prepare Data option.
In practice, an AWS user can select the data fields to analyze and then drag them onto the visual canvas or allow QuickSight to determine the appropriate visualization based on the selection using its AutoGraph feature. A user can create a dashboard, which includes views, tables, and other views of data.
QuickSight's StoryBoard feature allows a data analyst to share specific views of the data to express opinions or evaluations about it. A data analyst can capture and annotate points in the data for other team members to view or print.
SPICE uses columnar storage, in-memory technology, machine code, and data compression to run queries on datasets.
The engine also replicates data for high availability and allows QuickSight to scale to thousands of active users.
An administrator can manage user and group access from the QuickSight console. The service also integrates with Active Directory. QuickSight also offers an app for iOS and Android devices.
AWS re:invent 2020 special coverage
→ Click on the links below to see the series of articles with the news announced in AWS re:invent 2020!
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- AWS re:invent 2020: See what's new in computing!
- AWS re:invent 2020: What's New in Machine Learning!
- AWS re:invent 2020: What's New in Databases, Containers, and Storage!
- AWS re:invent 2020: Discover what's new in Amazon Connect!
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