Tag: Core BI

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Companies use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for its flexibility, durability, scalability, and ability to perform many things besides storing data. This has led to an exponential rise in the usage of S3 buckets across numerous AWS Regions, across tens or even hundreds of AWS accounts. To optimize costs and analyze security posture, Amazon […]

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations. It aims to shorten the systems development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. Similarly, BIOps (business intelligence and IT operations) can help your Amazon QuickSight admin team automate assets migration and version control. Your team can design the migration […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]

In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Glue Data Catalog to simplify the process for adding data descriptions and allow data analysts to access, search, and discover this cataloged metadata with BI tools. In this solution, we use AWS Glue Data Catalog, to break the silos between cross-functional data producer teams, sometimes also known […]

In any business intelligence system, securing and restricting access to the data is important. For example, you might want a particular dashboard to only be viewed by the users with whom the dashboard has been shared, yet customize the data displayed on that dashboard per user by implementing row-level security. With row-level security, you can […]

In a world where data security is a crucial concern, it’s very important to secure data even within an organization. Amazon QuickSight provides a sophisticated way of implementing data security by applying row-level security so you can restrict data access for visualizations. An entire organization may need access to the same dashboard, but may also […]

Organizations often need to process large volumes of data before serving to business stakeholders. In this blog, we will learn how to leverage Amazon EMR to process data using Apache Spark, the go-to platform for in-memory analytics of large data volume, and connect business intelligence (BI) tool Amazon QuickSight to serve data to end-users. QuickSight […]