by Darin Briskman, Technical Evangelist, AWS We'll take a look at the fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. We'll show how you can use Amazon QuickSight to easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

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Visualization with Amazon QuickSight
Darin Briskman
briskman@amazon.com
Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning

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Amazon QuickSight is a Business Analytics Service that lets business users
quickly and easily visualize, explore, and share insights from their data.

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A TYPICAL DEPLOYMENT
3. Connecting, Governing, and Distributing Data
2. Provisioning users
1. Setting up an account
4. Creating Content
5. Share and Collaborate

4. PROVISIONING AND MANAGING USERS

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Amazon QuickSight Enterprise
Edition can connect to both your
hosted and on-premises Active
Directories.
MANAGING USERS WITH YOUR ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Microsoft
Active Directory

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Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) using
SAML 2.0 to access Amazon QuickSight.
This allows users to sign in to their Identity
Provider portals with existing credentials and
then access Amazon QuickSight with a
single click, without having to enter any
Amazon QuickSight-specific account names
or passwords.
SINGLE SIGN ON

7. CONNECTING TO DATA

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DATA SOURCES
Amazon QuickSight is deeply integrated with AWS data sources such as Amazon Redshift, RDS, Aurora, Athena
and S3, cloud applications like Salesforce, flat file sources, as well as many on-premises databases and big
data technologies.
Amazon RDS
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
Athena
Amazon S3
Files
Amazon
Aurora
S3 Analytics

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SPICE
Millisecond response time
Fault-tolerant, self-healing
Support for high concurrency
Backed up in S3 (Write Ahead Log)
Instant failover with zero impact
Availability
Zone 1
Availability
Zone 2
Availability
Zone 3
Amazon QuickSight Query Layer
SPICE TABLE SPICE TABLE SPICE TABLE
S3 S3S3
Amazon QuickSight is powered by SPICE, a super-fast calculation engine that
delivers unprecedented performance and scale, delivering insights at the speed of
thought.

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Amazon QuickSight provides multiple ways to connect to your data wherever it
lives, whether it’s in the cloud, in 3rd party applications, or on-premise.
CONNECTING TO DATA
SPICE
On-Premises

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A SAMPLE PIPELINE - SERVERLESS ANALYTICS WITH AWS
Ad-hoc access to data using Athena
Athena can query aggregated
datasets as well

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Virtual Private
Cloud
VPC subnet VPC subnet
Amazon Redshift Elastic Network
Interface
Security Group
Amazon QuickSight VPC
Security Group
Virtual
Private
Gateway
On-premises
Data Center
Customer
Gateway
AWS Direct
Connect
SQL
Server
SECURE CONNECTIVITY TO VPC OR ON-PREMISE DATA

13. CREATING AND SHARING CONTENT

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Amazon QuickSight lets users create and share data sets, collaborate on your live analyses, and share
read-only dashboards that can be accessed on any device, anytime, anywhere.
Analyses
Analyses are visual explorations of your data.
Multiple users can collaborate on an analyses
with the ability to modify and change them in any
way.
Dashboards
You can share your analyses as read only
dashboards. Viewers can interact with and filter
the visualizations without modifying them.
CONNECT, ANALYZE, SHARE
Data Sets
Datasets are a combination of a connection to a
data source, data, and meta data about what data
should be available, filters, calculations and
permissions. Data sets can be used to create
analyses and dashboards and shared with other
users.

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Create managed datasets that
give end users the flexibility to
perform self-serve analytics on
data that you control.
Create Data Sets That:
• Can be shared with any user
• Automatically Refresh
• Have Row Level Security
• Users cannot modify
• Dynamically update with changes
DATA GOVERNANCE AND SELF-SERVE ANALYTICS

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DATA GOVERNANCE AND SELF-SERVE ANALYTICS
Because of it’s scalability and
low cost, Amazon QuickSight is
optimized to deliver
dashboards and reports to
users across your organization
in a way that’s secure,
connected, and up to date.

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AUDITING & LOGGING
Amazon QuickSight customers can log user actions within their Amazon
QuickSight accounts using AWS CloudTrail for governance, compliance and
auditing purposes.
Answer questions such as:
• How many users have seen
this dashboard?
• Which dashboards has this
user seen?
• Who has created a new data
set?
• When did they create the new
data set?

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New Features in 2017
Geospatial Visualization (Maps)
Table Visualization
Other Buckets in visualizations
Private Link (VPC Access)
Calculated Fields in SPICE
HIPAA Compliance

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CUSTOMERS
“Amazon QuickSight has enabled us to move
beyond static, spreadsheet based reporting to
a more interactive, collaborative, and agile
way of getting the most out of our data.
Amazon QuickSight makes it easy to ensure
that our entire company is looking at the
same metrics so we can make timely
decisions based on the most up to date
information.”
Timur Valishev - CEO, Jivochat

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