An Overview of Amazon’s QuickSight Tool

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Amazon’s QuickSight makes the process of delivering data insights to everyone in your organization very simple.

This tool is cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that allows you to publish and create superb interactive dashboards that are accessible through browsers and mobile devices. It includes native integration to AWS services like S3, Aurora, RedShift, RDS, IAM, Cloudtrail and Cloud Directory, providing you with all the necessities in order to build an end-to-end BI solution.

These dashboards can be embedded into your applications, giving your customers the luxury of self-service analytics. QuickSight saves you a lot of money and time, by cutting out the hassle of development and maintenance. It makes use of seamless authentication and very powerful APIs (Application Programming Interface) giving you the highest quality experience possible.

One of the many benefits of using this tool is that no software has to be installed, nor any servers deployed and no infrastructure has to be managed. Saving you more money and time. Because the architecture is serverless, Amazon can effortlessly scale to thousands of users, without the need for any additional infrastructure or extra capacity planning. There is no software that has to be installed, maintained or operated and no servers to manage and provision.

But the best thing about using QuickSight by Amazon is the pay-per-session billing model. It ensures that you can give all your users access to the data they need, without any unnecessary expenses. This means you will only have to reach or your wallet when users actually access the dashboards.

How it works
Companies often have to rely on writing complex ad-hoc SQL queries or sending static spreadsheets to share data and insights manually. QuickSight simplifies the process and cuts down your expenses, by enabling you to share interactive dashboards with all your users through a much simpler process than the traditional �manual sending of data’. This gives the users an opportunity to explore the data and drill down to gain relevant insight and answer their own questions. With this tool, users can connect to data sources, create visual analyses, create and edit datasets, invite co-workers to collaborate on analyses and publish dashboards and reports.

QuickSight allows you to create interactive dashboards for your users, quickly and effortlessly; that you can easily share with anyone. You get to choose from a myriad of features, such as a wide library of visualizations, drill-downs, filters, charts, and tables. Allowing you to customize it to your liking and make it your own.
QuickSight uses SPICE (super-fast, parallel, in-memory, calculation engine) which is an in-memory calculation engine that ensures ultra-fast performance at scale. It replicates data for high availability allowing thousands of users to use QuickSight.

The payment procedure is also quite simple. Instead of paying a fixed license cost monthly, readers are billed $0.30 for a 30-minute session or up to $5 per reader, per month for full unlimited access. This pay-per-session model grants all of your users secure access to email reports and interactive dashboards, with no upfront costs.

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