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Category: Amazon Quick Sight

Build a multilingual dashboard with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence (BI) service used by organizations of any size to make better data-driven decisions. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into SaaS apps and web portals to provide interactive dashboards, natural language query or data analysis capabilities to app users seamlessly. The QuickSight Demo Central contains many dashboards, feature showcase […]

Introduction to Amazon QuickSight ML Insights

Amazon QuickSight was launched in November 2016 as a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from a variety of data sources. In 2018, ML Insights for QuickSight (Enterprise Edition) was announced to add machine learning (ML)-powered forecasting and anomaly detection with a few clicks. […]

A serverless operational data lake for retail with AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon QuickSight

Do you want to reduce stockouts at stores? Do you want to improve order delivery timelines? Do you want to provide your customers with accurate product availability, down to the millisecond? A retail operational data lake can help you transform the customer experience by providing deeper insights into a variety of operational aspects of your […]

Automate your validated dataset deployment using Amazon QuickSight and AWS CloudFormation

A lot of the power behind business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools such as Amazon QuickSight comes from the ability to work interactively with data through a GUI. Report authors create dashboards using GUI-based tools, then in just a few clicks can share the dashboards with business users and decision-makers. This workflow empowers authors […]

Visualize MongoDB data from Amazon QuickSight using Amazon Athena Federated Query

In this post, you will learn how to use Amazon Athena Federated Query to connect a MongoDB database to Amazon QuickSight in order to build dashboards and visualizations. Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service, based on Presto, that provides full ANSI SQL support to query a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, […]

Enable Amazon Quick Sight federation with Google Workspace

October 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Quick Sight is now an AWS IAM Identity Center enabled application. This capability allows administrators who subscribe to Quick Sight to use IAM Identity Center to enable their users to log in with Google Workspace and other external identity providers. For more information, see Simplify business intelligence […]

Tips and tricks for high-performant dashboards in Amazon QuickSight

August 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon QuickSight is cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service. QuickSight automatically optimizes queries and execution to help dashboards load quickly, but you can make your dashboard loads even faster and make sure you’re getting the best possible performance by following the tips and tricks outlined in […]

Introducing new dashboard experience on Amazon QuickSight

This post was last updated August 2022, to include new experiences such as Analysis and Embedding. Amazon QuickSight launches the new look and feel for your dashboards. In this post, we will walk through the changes and improvements introduced with the new look. The new dashboard experience includes the following improvements: Simplified toolbar Discoverable visual […]

Top Amazon QuickSight features and updates launched Q1 2022

Amazon QuickSight is a serverless, cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service that brings data insights to your teams and end users through machine learning (ML) powered dashboards and data visualizations, which can be access via QuickSight or embedded in apps and portals that your users access. This post shares the top QuickSight features and updates launched […]

Amazon QuickSight 1-click public embedding

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either directly within a QuickSight application, or embedded in web apps and portals. QuickSight Enterprise Edition now supports 1-click public embedding, a feature […]