Learn how you can point Amazon QuickSight to AWS data stores, flat files, or other third-party data sources and begin visualizing your data in minutes.

1. Amazon
Visualizing Big Data
Insights with Amazon
QuickSight
Shree Kenghe, Solutions Architect
10/26/2016

2. The explosion of data that is being generated by cloud based applications and services,
as well as data that is being migrated to cloud platforms is increasing exponentially
Cloud Based Applications
and Services
Migrating On-Prem Data
Big Data Frameworks

3. While many of our customers utilize 3rd party BI solutions to analyze and
report on on their AWS data, most traditional solutions are not optimized for
this new cloud-centric environment
• Require desktop and on-premises
server software
• Expensive up-front licensing costs
• Costly infrastructure maintenance
• Long deployment times
• Don’t scale efficiently
• Complicated user experience

4. Introducing

5. Amazon QuickSight Is a Cloud-native Business Analytics Service that lets
users Quickly and Easily Visualize, Explore Their Data and Share Insights.

6. AWS continues to deliver ground-breaking services for developers and
businesses to store, manage, and process your data…
AnalyzeStoreCollect
Amazon Machine
Learning
Amazon Kinesis
Analytics
AWS Import/Export
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis
Firehose
AWS Database
Migration
Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon Dynamo DB
Amazon RDS,
Aurora
Amazon
ElasticSearch
AWS Data
Pipeline
Amazon Redshift
Amazon EMR
Amazon
QuickSight
Amazon EC2

7. Business Professionals
(Simple Discovery)
Data Consumption
Data
Professionals
(Heavy Analytics)
Who Is QuickSight For?
QuickSight is designed for everyday business
professionals to do fast, easy analysis on their AWS
data.
QuickSight is also perfect for delivering published
dashboards throughout the organization.
CMO
Sales Managers
Product ManagersCEOs
ProcurementAWS Ops
Sales Reps
Store Managers
CEOs Warehouse Managers
Support Reps

8. Fast, Easy Ad-Hoc Analytics for
End Users
QuickSight combines an elegant, easy to
use interface with blazing fast performance
powered by SPICE to get users from data
to insights faster than ever before.

9. Collaborate, Share and Publish
QuickSight let’s users create and share Data Sets, collaborate on your live Analyses, and share,
read only Dashboards and Storyboards 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.
StoryBoards
Let you combine visualizations into a
guided tour that you can share with
other users.

10. Deeply Integrated
As a natural extension of AWS,
QuickSight is deeply integrated with
your AWS data sources like
Redshift, RDS, S3 and others, as
well as third party sources like
Excel, Salesforce and more.
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS, Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Flat
Files

11. Super-Fast Performance with SPICE
QuickSight is powered by SPICE, a super-fast
calculation engine that delivers unprecedented
performance and scale delivering insights at the speed
of thought.
• Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory optimized, Calculation Engine
• Compiled queries with machine code generation
• Rich calculations
• SQL-like syntax
• Very fast response time to queries
• Fully managed – No hardware or software to license

12. Intelligent Analytics
In future versions QuickSight will leverage
machine learning to deliver powerful
features like auto suggestions, predictive
analytics, and machine generated insights.
+
Amazon Machine
Learning

13. Demo:
Retail Sales
Orders

14. QuickSight’s Workflow
2Amazon Confidential
Flat files
Relational
Databases
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon S3
Retail Data
Ops data
Data Sources Data Sets
Marketing
data
Analyses Dashboards &
Stories

15. QuickSight + AWS:
A Complete Solution

16. QuickSight + Redshift
Redshift is one the fastest growing services in the AWS platform. QuickSight seamlessly
connects to Redshift giving you native access to all of your instances, and tables.
Amazon Redshift
Achieve high concurrency by
offloading end user queries to SPICE
Calculations can be done in SPICE reducing
the load on the underlying database

17. QuickSight + S3
Amazon S3 holds trillions of objects. QuickSight and SPICE enable you to visualize data files in S3 and dump data
from data lakes onto S3 – then import directly to QuickSight without the need for an intermediate data warehouse.
(Coming)
(Coming)

18. QuickSight + RDS
QuickSight can connect directly to your hosted databases in RDS, allowing users to analyze operational
data sources directly rather than relying on an additional DW layer – just like a data mart.
Amazon RDS
Achieve high concurrency by
offloading end user queries to SPICE
Calculations can be done in SPICE reducing
the load on the underlying database

19. An Enterprise Grade
Solution

20. Secure Sharing
Hosted content created in QS is shared with
secure links preventing loose files from falling
into the wrong hands, as well as keeping out
of date versions of reports and dashboards
from staying in circulation.

21. End User Flexibility WITH
Centralized Control
QuickSight gives end users the ability to
easily perform self-serve data-discovery with
the centralized control companies need to
guarantee a single source of the truth.
• Create and syndicate managed Data Sets
• Assign or revoke Data Set access
• Governed Data Sources (coming soon)

22. Pricing

23. Individual Standard Edition Enterprise Edition
Subscription Annual Monthly Annual Monthly
Price per user per month Free
For one user *
$9 $12 $18 $24
SPICE Capacity (GB) 1 10 10 10 10
Additional SPICE
GB-month
$0.25 $0.38
As an AWS service, QuickSight is a cost effective solution whether
you’re deploying to 10 users or 10,000
* Free Trial: invite up to four (4) additional users under a two-month free trial

24. Secure, Scalable, Cloud
As a native cloud service, QuickSight combines the speed, scalability, and security that
our customers have come to depend on with the value and cost effectiveness you
expect from AWS.
• Native AWS Cloud Service
• Secure
• No Server Licensing
• No Infrastructure or Maintenance Costs
• No Deployment, Sign Up and Go!
• Designed to Scale
• Simple, Intuitive UX
• Subscription Model

25. Get Started With
Signup up today for a free account at:
http://QuickSight.aws.amazon.com