If you're looking for a powerful, cloud-based business intelligence service, Amazon QuickSight deserves serious consideration. With this innovative tool, you can easily share insightful data visualizations with your team, no matter where they are. QuickSight connects to your cloud data and seamlessly integrates information from multiple sources - AWS, third-party, big data, spreadsheets, SaaS, B2B, and more. And best of all, it's a fully managed service with enterprise-level security, global availability, and built-in redundancy, so you don't have to worry about any infrastructure.
As a way of visually displaying large amounts of data, QuickSight empowers decision-makers to explore and make sense of data in a user-friendly, interactive environment. Access your dashboards securely from any device, on or off your network. And with user-management tools that scale from 10 to 10,000 users, you can be confident in QuickSight's ability to grow with your business.
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Amazon Quicksight can be fed by several different types of datasources:
You can use any of the following relational data stores as data sources for Amazon QuickSight:
QuickSight supports files in the following formats which can come from s3 or your local network:
Basic support for JSON flat-file data includes the following:
Support for JSON file structures (.json) includes the following:
The following JSON features ARE NOT supported:
Reading JSON with a structure containing a list of records
List attributes and list objects within a JSON record; these are skipped during import
Customizing upload or configuration settings
parseJSON functions for SQL and analyses
Error messaging for invalid JSON
Extracting a JSON object from a JSON structure
Reading delimited JSON records
APIs that Amazon Quicksight supports out-of-the-box include the following:
AWS has created a number of example dashboards to help understand what's possible, organized by industry:
Each of these dashboards is by no means the limit, but provides a great jumping off point for people curious to know what is possible.
If you'd like to know more about Amazon Quicksight or would like to get a free estimate on your next Amazon Quicksight project, please don't hesitate to reach out.