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We are excited to introduce the latest feature in Amazon QuickSight that gives authors and readers the ability to freeze columns within tables. This new functionality brings a whole new level of control and convenience for analyzing data in tables. Now, with just a few clicks, you can lock specific columns in place, ensuring that essential information remains visible while scrolling horizontally across wide tables. No more losing sight of critical data points or headers as you explore your tables. This enhancement to the already robust suite of tools in QuickSight aligns with our commitment to delivering a more intuitive and responsive user experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to freeze columns for enhanced table navigation in QuickSight.

Amazon QuickSight Pixel-perfect Reports enables the creation and sharing of highly formatted, personalized reports containing business-critical data to hundreds of thousands of end-users without any infrastructure setup or maintenance, up-front licensing, or long-term commitments. In this post, we will cover how to use QuickSight, a serverless and cloud-native BI service, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), an object storage service, to generate reports with specific parameters and have these reports delivered to users in a custom application.

In the first post, we showed how Amazon QuickSight can be used to improve power utility operational efficiency. Power utility distribution network engineers or operators can visualize smart sensor status in real time and troubleshoot smart sensor issues. In this post, we share with you how to create, schedule, and share highly formatted multi-page reports based on different dashboards.

The Solution Architect Empowerment Team (SET) is a division within the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) that serves 1,600 specialist solution architects. SET develops specialized data intelligence tools in collaboration with various internal partners across different departments. These tools help the broader team enhance the customer experience by giving the solution architect leaders and stakeholders faster, more valuable insights to work with. In this blog post, we describe how the SET moved its insights-delivery environment to Amazon QuickSight to reap better cost savings and scalability.

The Powered by QuickSight (PbQ) program supports AWS software partners across your embedded analytics journey, meeting you to provide build and go-to-market support wherever you’re looking for expertise and guidance. With over 20 PbQ events successfully completed worldwide in 2023, come join us and hear from fellow developers and product owners on how QuickSight has supercharged their apps with fast, straightforward, and powerful analytics.

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it straightforward 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. With QuickSight providing insights to power daily decisions across the organization, end-users expect actionable insights that can flow seamlessly into their daily workflow in their application of choice. This allows you to make data-driven decisions and take action on these decisions without context switching between multiple platforms. With this release, customers embedding QuickSight dashboards or visuals can now use new capabilities in the Embedding SDK to unlock use cases for end readers.

In this post, we share how Star achieved rich, interactive analytics using Amazon QuickSight.

April 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon QuickSight is now an AWS IAM Identity Center enabled application. This capability allows administrators that subscribe to QuickSight to use IAM Identity Center to enable their users to login using their existing credentials. QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) […]

Are you finding it cumbersome to scroll horizontally in pivot tables to see all your row fields? Are you dealing with data that has a hierarchical structure, like cost center or product hierarchies? If you are, then there’s exciting news for you! Amazon QuickSight now offers a new layout option called hierarchy layout for pivot […]

Financial statements are a set of documents that contain formal records of financial activities of a business at a specific point in time. For example, a profit and loss (P&L) statement summarizes the revenues, expenses, and resulting net profit or loss of a business. It is a snapshot of the organization’s financial performance, starting from […]