Category: Amazon QuickSight

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In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Glue Data Catalog to simplify the process for adding data descriptions and allow data analysts to access, search, and discover this cataloged metadata with BI tools. In this solution, we use AWS Glue Data Catalog, to break the silos between cross-functional data producer teams, sometimes also known […]

In any business intelligence system, securing and restricting access to the data is important. For example, you might want a particular dashboard to only be viewed by the users with whom the dashboard has been shared, yet customize the data displayed on that dashboard per user by implementing row-level security. With row-level security, you can […]

In a world where data security is a crucial concern, it’s very important to secure data even within an organization. Amazon QuickSight provides a sophisticated way of implementing data security by applying row-level security so you can restrict data access for visualizations. An entire organization may need access to the same dashboard, but may also […]

Organizations often need to process large volumes of data before serving to business stakeholders. In this blog, we will learn how to leverage Amazon EMR to process data using Apache Spark, the go-to platform for in-memory analytics of large data volume, and connect business intelligence (BI) tool Amazon QuickSight to serve data to end-users. QuickSight […]

A large business intelligence (BI) project with many users and teams and sensitive information demands a multi-faceted security architecture. Such architecture should provide BI administrators and architects with the capability to minimize the amount of information accessible to users. For a straightforward solution to manage Amazon QuickSight user and asset access permissions, you can use […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone. QuickSight has carefully designed concepts and features that enable analysis builders, such as QuickSight authors, to design content-rich, interactive, and dynamic dashboards to share with dashboard viewers. As authors build an analysis, QuickSight transforms, filters, and […]

October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include SPICE setup Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive BI dashboards that include Machine Learning-powered insights. QuickSight dashboards can be accessed from any device, and seamlessly embedded […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all of their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use Microsoft Azure […]

This blog post is co-written by Glen Douglas and Alex Savchenko from Integrationworx. Enterprises that follow an Agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) process for their dashboard development and deployment typically have distinct environments for development, staging, QA and test, and production. One recommended approach when developing using AWS is to create multiple AWS accounts corresponding […]