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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 […]
Create a custom Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics dashboard using Amazon QuickSight
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 […]
BIOps: Amazon QuickSight object migration and version control
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 […]
How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services
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 […]
Simplify data discovery for business users by adding data descriptions in the AWS Glue Data Catalog
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 […]
Automate Amazon QuickSight user and group management using LDAP data for row-level security
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 […]
Implement row-level security using a complete LDAP hierarchical organization structure in Amazon QuickSight
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 […]