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Category: Amazon QuickSight

October 2025 Amazon Q and Amazon QuickSight events

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster. Join us for online and in-person events in October 2025.

October sessions of the Amazon Q & Amazon QuickSight Learning Series

The Amazon Q & Amazon QuickSight Learning Series is a free learning resource hosted by our QuickSight Community. We provide live weekly webinars to give users of all technical backgrounds an on-demand experience to learn from our technical experts. We host weekly sessions, offering multiple topics to our global group of users. Session topics include new feature launches, best practices, and feature deep dives to improve your Amazon Q and QuickSight user experience, empowering you to unlock all that QuickSight and Q have to offer.

How SSENSE modernized their analytics platform with Amazon QuickSight

In this post, we explore how SSENSE successfully migrated from a legacy business intelligence platform to Amazon QuickSight, enabling self-service analytics across the organization while reducing costs and improving operational efficiency. The migration involved transitioning almost 600 dashboards within 8 months, resulting in substantial benefits including a 25% decrease in dashboard development time, 80% reduction in maintenance tasks, and overall analytics expenses reduced to approximately one-third of previous levels.

How PayNet enhanced payment analytics with Amazon QuickSight

In this post, we explore how PayNet transformed its business intelligence capabilities using Amazon QuickSight to enable near real-time payment analytics, improve operational visibility, and enhance data quality monitoring across their diverse payment services.

Use Amazon Redshift data sharing to enable Amazon Q in QuickSight across Regions

In this post, we discuss how to find data insights effectively using Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Redshift data sharing across different AWS Regions. This solution enables organizations to use generative BI capabilities through Amazon Q in QuickSight even when their data resides in a Region where these features are not yet available.

How SmugMug accelerates business intelligence with Amazon QuickSight scenarios

In this post, SmugMug demonstrates how they use Amazon Q in QuickSight’s scenarios capability to enable self-service AI-powered analysis while maintaining data security. The solution helps SmugMug’s lean team support tens of millions of active users and tens of billions of photos while addressing challenges around data governance, quality, and security.

Deliver Amazon QuickSight pixel-perfect reports to multiple customer groups

In this post, we demonstrate how to set up and schedule Amazon QuickSight pixel-perfect reports with row-level security for multiple customer groups, enabling organizations to deliver personalized reports to different user groups with varying data access levels using a single dashboard and schedule.

Transforming business meetings to get real-time answers to data questions using Amazon Q in QuickSight

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Q in QuickSight to obtain immediate, data-driven insights during business meetings by asking questions in natural language and receiving real-time, multi-visual answers. The solution enables teams to explore data conversationally through the built-in Product Sales topic, making analytics more accessible and actionable without requiring technical expertise or dashboard creation.

Transform your Google Sheets data into powerful analytics with Amazon QuickSight

In this post, we demonstrate how to enable and configure Google Sheets as a new data source in Amazon QuickSight, including the required AWS Secrets Manager Write permissions setup and OAuth authentication process. Learn how to securely connect QuickSight to Google Sheets data, allowing you to transform spreadsheet data into powerful analytics and visualizations using QuickSight’s business intelligence capabilities.