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Category: Analytics

Perform multi-cloud analytics using Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Athena Federated Query, and Microsoft Azure Synapse

In this post, we show how to use Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena Federated Query to build dashboards and visualizations on data that is stored in Microsoft Azure Synapse databases. Organizations today use data stores that are best suited for the applications they build. Additionally, they may also continue to use some of their legacy […]

New analytical questions available in Amazon QuickSight Q: “Why” and “Forecast”

Amazon QuickSight Q uses machine learning (ML) to enable any user to ask questions about business data in natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations in seconds. Today, Amazon QuickSight announces support for two new question types that simplify and scale complex analytical tasks using natural language: “forecast” and “why.” In this post, […]

Create advanced insights using level-aware calculations in Amazon QuickSight

Calculation at the right granularity always needs to be handled carefully when performing data analytics. Especially when data is generated through joining across multiple tables, the denormalization of datasets can add a lot of complications to make accurate calculations challenging. Amazon QuickSight recently launched a new functionality called level-aware calculations (LAC), which enables you to […]

Create small multiples in Amazon QuickSight

We’re excited to announce the launch of small multiples in Amazon QuickSight at AWS re:Invent 2022! Small multiples is one of the most powerful data visualization features when it comes to comparative analysis. Previously, you had to either use a filter or create multiple visuals side by side to analyze multiples slices of the same […]

Add text boxes to your Amazon QuickSight analysis

We are excited to announce the launch of text boxes in Amazon QuickSight. Now you can add text for common use cases, including but not limited to titles, subtitles, annotations, adding additional information for KPIs etc has been simplified than ever before with the new text box. You can reposition, resize, and make your text […]

New line chart customization options in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a serverless, cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service that brings data insights to your teams and end-users through machine learning (ML)-powered dashboards and data visualizations that can be accessed via QuickSight or embedded in apps and portals that your users access. Line charts in QuickSight have undergone a major overhaul this year, starting […]

Amazon Alexa Audio migrates business intelligence to Amazon QuickSight for faster performance

The Amazon Alexa Audio Data & Insights (AUDI) team strives to make business intelligence (BI) accessible for engineers across Amazon Alexa Audio. Amazon Alexa Audio helps you stay entertained with your favorite music, podcasts, books, and radio from providers such as Amazon Music, Spotify, and iHeart Radio. The AUDI team manages dashboards and reports to […]

Automate your Amazon QuickSight deployment with the new API-based account creation and deletion

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 the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. We’re excited to announce the availability […]

Fulfillment by Amazon uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to deliver key reporting insights to Amazon Marketplace sellers

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) was launched in 2006, allowing businesses to outsource shipping to Amazon. With this fulfillment option, Amazon stores, picks, packs, ships, and delivers the products to customer as well as handling the customer service and returns for those orders. Within Seller Central, a website where sellers can monitor their Amazon sales activity, […]

What’s new with Amazon QuickSight at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year’s re:Invent will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 28 to December 2. Amazon QuickSight is the most popular cloud-native serverless BI service. This post walks you through the details of all QuickSight-related sessions and activities to […]