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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 […]

California State University Chancellor’s Office reduces cost and improves efficiency using Amazon QuickSight for streamlined HR reporting in higher education

The California State University Chancellor’s Office (CSUCO) sits at the center of America’s most significant and diverse 4-year universities. The California State University (CSU) serves approximately 477,000 students and employs more than 55,000 staff and faculty members across 23 universities and 7 off-campus centers. The CSU provides students with opportunities to develop intellectually and personally, […]

Measure the adoption of your Amazon QuickSight dashboards and view your BI portfolio in a single pane of glass

June 2024: This post was reviewed and updated with code changes to the AWS CloudFormation template October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include an optional solution using AWS Glue. Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service. If you plan to deploy enterprise-grade QuickSight dashboards, measuring user adoption and […]

How The Mill Adventure enabled data-driven decision-making in iGaming using Amazon QuickSight

This post is co-written with Darren Demicoli from The Mill Adventure. The Mill Adventure is an iGaming industry enabler offering customizable turnkey solutions to B2B partners and custom branding enablement for its B2C partners. They provide a complete gaming platform, including licenses and operations, for rapid deployment and success in iGaming, and are committed to […]

Manage your Amazon QuickSight datasets more efficiently with the new user interface

Amazon QuickSight has launched a new user interface for dataset management. Previously, the dataset management experience was a popup dialog modal with limited space, and all functionality was displayed in this one small modal. The new dataset management experience replaces the existing popup dialog with a full-page experience, providing a clearer breakdown of a dataset’s […]

Customize Amazon QuickSight dashboards with the new bookmarks functionality

Amazon QuickSight users now can add bookmarks in dashboards to save customized dashboard preferences into a list of bookmarks for easy one-click access to specific views of the dashboard without having to manually make multiple filter and parameter changes every time. Combined with the “Share this view” functionality, you can also now share your bookmark […]

Talk to your data: Query your data lake with Amazon QuickSight Q

Amazon QuickSight Q uses machine learning (ML) and natural language technology to empower you to ask business questions about your data and get answers instantly. You can simply enter your questions (for example, “What is the year-over-year sales trend?”) and get the answer in seconds in the form of a QuickSight visual. Some business questions […]

Amazon migrates financial reporting to Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by from Chitradeep Barman and Yaniv Ackerman  from Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech). Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is responsible for financial reporting on Earth’s largest transaction dataset, as the central organization supporting accounting and tax operations across Amazon. Amazon FinTech’s accounting, tax, and business finance teams close books and file taxes […]