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Category: Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight Recap re:Invent 2021

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year’s re:Invent was held in person in Las Vegas from November 29th through December 3rd. AWS is also hosting virtual re:invent for attendees to access on demand content. Register now for virtual re:invent or subscribe to the AWS Events […]

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Create a serverless event-driven workflow to ingest and process Microsoft data with AWS Glue and Amazon EventBridge

Microsoft SharePoint is a document management system for storing files, organizing documents, and sharing and editing documents in collaboration with others. Your organization may want to ingest SharePoint data into your data lake, combine the SharePoint data with other data that’s available in the data lake, and use it for reporting and analytics purposes. AWS […]

TrueBlue uses Amazon QuickSight to deliver more accurate pricing and grow business

This is a guest post by TrueBlue. In their own words, “Founded in 1989, TrueBlue provides specialized workforce solutions, including staffing, talent management, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). In 2020, the company connected approximately 490,000 people with work.” At TrueBlue, we offer solutions that help employers connect with workers worldwide. Every day, sales teams at […]

Now Available: Updated guidance on the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework

Nearly all businesses today require some form of data analytics processing, from auditing user access to generating sales reports. For all your analytics needs, the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive guidance to help you assess your workloads and identify best practices aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, […]

Create and reuse governed datasets in Amazon QuickSight with new Dataset-as-a-Source feature

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. QuickSight recently introduced Dataset-as-a-Source, a new feature that allows data owners to create authoritative datasets that can then be reused and further extended by thousands of users across the enterprise. This post walks […]

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Use Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight in a cross-account environment

This blog post was last reviewed and updated May, 2022 to include AWS Lake Formation resource sharing model. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy to host applications for different departments within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach, which raises challenges when you need to use […]

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Amazon QuickSight deployment models for cross-account and cross-Region access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS

Many AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts and Regions across different departments and applications within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach to centralize users, data source access, and dashboard management. This post explores how you can use different Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) private connectivity features to connect QuickSight […]

An updated Amazon QuickSight sign-in experience

This blog post was last updated on September 14th 2022 to reflect the launch being generally available in all QuickSight regions. More details here. Amazon QuickSight launched changes in the sign-in domain and a new look and feel while signing in. This doesn’t impact your access to QuickSight. In this post, we walk through changes […]

Create stunning, pixel perfect dashboards with the new free-form layout mode in Amazon QuickSight

The latest update of Amazon QuickSight introduces a new free-form dashboard layout option, along with granular per-visual interaction controls and conditional rendering options that open up a range of creative possibilities for dashboard authors. In this post, we look at the new capabilities available and how you can use them to create and share stunning […]

Embed multi-tenant dashboards in SaaS apps using Amazon QuickSight without provisioning or managing users

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 within QuickSight itself, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. QuickSight Enterprise Edition recently added row-level security (RLS) using tags, a […]