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Convoy uses Amazon QuickSight to help shippers and carriers improve efficiency and save money with data-driven decisions

Convoy is the leading digital freight network in the United States. We move millions of truckloads around the country through our connected network of carriers, saving money for shippers, increasing earnings for drivers, and eliminating carbon waste for our planet. In 2015, Convoy started a movement toward efficient freight. We build technology to find smarter […]

Amazon Identity Services uses Amazon QuickSight to empower partners with self-serve data discovery

Amazon Identity Services is responsible for the way Amazon customers—buyers, sellers, developers—identify themselves on Amazon. Our team also manages customers’ core account information, such as names and delivery addresses. Our mission is to deliver the most intuitive, convenient, and secure authentication experience. We’re in charge of account security for Amazon, worldwide, on all device surfaces. […]

Clickedu uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to empower school administrators with key educational institution health insights

This is a guest post by Ignasi Nogués and Georgina Valls from Clickedu. With more than 1.5 million unique users across 700 schools and core values that include connectivity, reliability, and innovation, Clickedu is the leading educational platform in Spain. Offering both a school administration system and a digital learning environment, Clickedu is one of […]

AWS Specialist Insights Team uses Amazon QuickSight to provide operational insights across the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization

The AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is a team of go-to-market experts that support strategic services, customer segments, and verticals at AWS. Working together, the Specialist Insights Team (SIT) and the Finance, Analytics, Science, and Technology team (FAST) support WWSO in acquiring, securing, and delivering information and business insights at scale by working with the […]

Visma InSchool uses Amazon QuickSight to meet varied business intelligence needs with employees and customers

This is a guest post by Vasily Ulianko and Per Brandser from Visma InSchool. Located in Europe and Latin America, with headquarters in Norway, Visma has a bold vision to shape the future of society through technology. To do that, we provide business-critical software solutions for over 1 million customers across the Nordics, Benelux, Central […]

Leverages uses Amazon QuickSight to drive valuable and effective customer engagement with embedded market trends and insights

This is a guest post from Tomotaka Inoue, Data Analyst at Leverages. Founded in 2005, Leverages offers job staffing and web tools—Levtech and Levwell—for the IT and healthcare industries, serving both companies seeking talent and job seekers who are in the market for their next role. Inspired by a data point showing a proportional correlation […]

Stream VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs enable you to track the IP traffic going to and from the network interfaces in your VPC for your workloads. Analyzing VPC logs helps […]

Run fault tolerant and cost-optimized Spark clusters using Amazon EMR on EKS and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that allows you to run Spark jobs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances save you up to 90% over On-Demand Instances, and is a great way to cost optimize the Spark workloads running on Amazon […]

Monitor AWS workloads without a single line of code with Logz.io and Kinesis Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Observability data provides near real-time insights into the health and performance of AWS workloads, so that engineers can quickly address production issues and troubleshoot them before widespread customer impact. As AWS workloads […]

AWS Marketplace Seller Insights team uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to empower sellers with actionable business insights

AWS Marketplace enables independent software vendors (ISVs), data providers, and consulting partners to sell software, services, and data to millions of AWS customers. Working in partnership with the AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Marketplace helps ISVs and partners build, market and sell their AWS offerings by providing crucial business, technical, and marketing support. The AWS […]