It’s often hard to analyze the data and learn from it for those who are not familiar with programming languages, that’s where QuickSight comes in.
QuickSight is business analytics and intelligence service from AWS, business users can collect meaningful insights.
Unlike PowerBI this is not a huge application to download and play around, QuickSight is a web based application which makes it easy for us to work on our data without worrying about storage and security.
Features
Data Integration The biggest problem with most of the analytics and visualization applications are data integration. In QuickSight we can connect data from various sources which includes all the AWS services and third party services like MySQL, SQL Server etc.
ML Insights QuickSight will deliver deeper insights and trends without manual analysis based on the Machine learning algorithm which powers Amazon.com for the past two decades.
Data Visualization Visualization is paramount for any analytics application as it facilitates comprehension of data for business stakeholders, empowering them to make informed decisions effortlessly, QuickSight have the option to create wide range of options to create graphs, charts, heatmap etc.
Collaboration QuickSight reports are easy to share and embed on your reports without worrying about the security concerns.
Security QuickSight is secured by Role based access control of AWS’s IAM this will help you to save your business data, reports from others without your permission.
Pricing QuickSight offers an unique pricing models where users charged on each sessions initiated, this will help you to save tons of money.
Login into the AWS Console and search for QuickSight
Click on New analysis and then new dataset
You can choose the data sources to import the data
For time being I’ll navigate you around to quicksight using a sample data.
You can add new data by clicking data and add dataset.
You can drag and drop the fields from left to the graph to insights.
You can publish your report by clicking on publish
