Author: Jose Kunnackal

Today, AWS is excited to announce the availability of fine-grained access control for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)-permissioned resources in Amazon QuickSight. Fine-grained access control allows Amazon QuickSight account administrators to control authors’ default access to connected AWS resources. Fine-grained access control enables administrators to use IAM policies to scope down access permissions, limiting specific authors’ access to specific items within the AWS resources. Administrators can now apply this new level of access control to Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, and Amazon RDS/Redshift database discovery.

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of email reports and data labels in Amazon QuickSight. Email reports With email reports in Amazon QuickSight, you can receive scheduled and one-off reports delivered directly to your email inbox. Using email reports, you have access to the latest information without logging in to your Amazon QuickSight […]

We are excited to announce support for two new features in Amazon QuickSight: 1) Combo charts, the first visual type in QuickSight to support dual-axis visualization, and 2) Row-Level Security, which allows access control over data at the row level based on the user who is accessing QuickSight. Together, these features enable you to present more engaging and personalized dashboards in Amazon QuickSight, while enforcing stricter controls over data.

Starting today, QuickSight will allow users to save the contents of a dashboard as an analysis within their account. As the user of a dashboard, this will allow you to create an analysis that contains all visuals from the dashboard.

Since launch, Amazon QuickSight has enabled business users to quickly and easily analyze data from a wide variety of data sources with superfast visualization capabilities enabled by SPICE (Superfast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine). When setting up Amazon QuickSight access for business users, administrators have a choice of authentication mechanisms. These include Amazon QuickSight–specific credentials, AWS […]

We launched Amazon QuickSight to democratize BI. Our goal is to make it easier and cheaper to roll out advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in an organization. Overall, this enables better understanding of business, and allows faster data-driven decisions in an organization. In the past, the ability to share data presented an administrative challenge […]

Today I’m excited to share with you a number of exciting new features and enhancements in Amazon QuickSight. You can now create key performance indicator (KPI) charts, define custom ranges when importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, export data to comma separated value (CSV) format, and create aggregate filters for SPICE data sets. In the Enterprise Edition, […]

Jose Kunnackal is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Quicksight This blog post has been translated into Japanese. In November 2016, we launched Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-powered, business analytics service that lets you quickly and easily visualize your data. QuickSight uses SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-Memory Calculation Engine), a fully managed data store that enables blazing […]