Amazon QuickSight: Agile and Powerful Visualization for Strategic Decisions

Q: What is Amazon QuickSight’s pricing model?

QuickSight offers two flexible pricing models: - **1. Pay-per-session:** Pay only for the actual usage per user, ideal for teams with occasional use. - **2. Monthly Active Users (MAU):** A subscription-based model for frequent usage, ensuring predictable costs for organizations that rely on analytics regularly.

CloudDog offers a complete solution for data visualization and analysis with Amazon QuickSight, leveraging the full power of AWS Cloud to deliver interactive dashboards, advanced insights, and on-demand scalability. Our approach integrates AWS Glue and Athena to efficiently transform data, while IAM and Lake Formation ensure security and governance over information access. With automation via Step Functions and EventBridge, your team will have personalized reports, enabling strategic decision-making with speed and precision.

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Features

Amazon QuickSight for Advanced Data Visualization: Provides interactive and highly customizable dashboards, allowing teams to analyze data and gain insights quickly and efficiently. With support for advanced charts, geospatial maps, and automatic narratives, QuickSight simplifies strategic decision-making.
Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning: Integrated with Amazon SageMaker, QuickSight allows machine learning models to be embedded directly into dashboards, providing predictive analytics and actionable insights without requiring advanced coding.
SPICE (Superfast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine): QuickSight's in-memory analytics engine delivers high-speed performance for querying large datasets, enabling fast and interactive analysis even for complex data.
Wide Connectivity with Data Sources: Easily integrates with various data sources, including Amazon S3, Redshift, RDS, Athena, as well as external systems like Salesforce, SQL databases, and REST APIs, providing a consolidated view of your data.
Governance and Security with IAM: Offers granular control over dashboard and report access, ensuring that each user sees only the data relevant to their role, in compliance with company data governance policies.
AWS Glue and Glue Data Catalog for Data Discovery: Direct integration with the Glue Data Catalog for quick access and centralized metadata organization, allowing BI teams to efficiently find and use data.
Automation with AWS Step Functions and EventBridge: Enables data workflow automation to keep dashboards up to date, reducing manual efforts and ensuring that analyses are based on the latest information.
AI-Powered Automated Insights: QuickSight uses artificial intelligence to generate automatic narrative insights, describing trends and anomalies in data in natural language, making them easier to understand across the organization.
Collaboration and Accessibility: Dashboards can be shared in real-time, accessible from any device via a browser or mobile app, ensuring that distributed teams collaborate efficiently.
Pay-per-Session for Scalability and Efficiency: A flexible pricing model that reduces operational costs, allowing organizations to pay only for actual usage while supporting thousands of simultaneous users.
Geospatial Analytics: Supports advanced geospatial mapping, enabling the visualization of data in a geographic context, ideal for businesses that need to analyze regional or global information.
Seamless Export and Integration: Data and dashboards can be easily exported to external tools like Microsoft Excel and Power BI, ensuring smooth integration with existing workflows.
Multi-Platform and Multi-Device Support: Fully compatible with browsers, mobile devices, and tablets, ensuring that insights are accessible whenever and wherever needed.

AWS Partner and AWS Certified Partner

In 2023, CloudDog accomplished a critical milestone by achieving competence in AWS Control Tower, reinforcing its solid commitment to Amazon Web Services. This journey began in 2019 when the company became an AWS Select Level Partner. Since then, CloudDog has remained committed to AWS, receiving fully support from the firm. CloudDog has received several certifications throughout the years, including becoming the second AWS partner in Brazil to earn Amazon CloudFront Accreditation in 2020. By 2022, the business has gained five additional AWS service specialties, further solidifying its deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem.

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Arquitetura

For this Amazon QuickSight solution, we provide specialized architectures for data visualization, offering alternatives based on complexity and integration requirements. Implementations are designed to handle different use cases, including integration with various data sources (AWS and external), API ingestion, and advanced governance.

Each architecture is designed to ensure efficiency, scalability, and automation, guaranteeing that QuickSight’s interactive dashboards remain up to date, accessible, and aligned with business strategy needs.

Use Cases for Amazon QuickSight

Interactive Dashboards for Decision-Making: Ideal for companies needing clear and accessible visualizations to support strategic decision-making. Marketing, sales, and operations teams can use QuickSight to identify trends and monitor key metrics in real-time.
Automated Reports and Predictive Analytics: Perfect for teams looking to reduce manual effort in report generation. QuickSight, integrated with SPICE and services like Amazon SageMaker, enables automated predictive analytics to forecast trends and future behaviors—ideal for BI and strategic planning.
Integration with Internal and External Data Sources: Great for companies that use a mix of internal data sources (such as Redshift, Athena, and RDS) and external sources (APIs, Salesforce, etc.). QuickSight’s connectivity consolidates data from multiple systems into a single visual dashboard.
Data Monitoring and Governance: Essential for industries like healthcare, finance, and government, where security and compliance are critical. QuickSight works with IAM to ensure that sensitive data is accessed only by authorized users, promoting effective governance.
Geospatial Analytics for Regional Strategies: Perfect for businesses requiring geographic analysis, such as logistics, retail, and telecommunications. With support for interactive maps, QuickSight helps optimize regional operations and identify local patterns.
Multi-Device Support for Remote Collaboration: Ideal for distributed teams needing real-time access to dashboards. QuickSight ensures consistent visualizations across browsers and mobile devices, promoting efficient collaboration and rapid decision-making.
Flexible Payment Scenarios: Perfect for businesses with occasional users or varied access levels. QuickSight’s pay-per-session model reduces operational costs while maintaining high scalability, supporting organizations of any size..

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Amazon QuickSight’s pricing model?

QuickSight offers two flexible pricing models:

1. Pay-per-session: Pay only for the actual usage per user, ideal for teams with occasional use.
2. Monthly Active Users (MAU): A subscription-based model for frequent usage, ensuring predictable costs for organizations that rely on analytics regularly.

How does Amazon QuickSight simplify data analysis?

Amazon QuickSight provides a simple yet powerful interface for creating interactive dashboards. It connects to multiple data sources, consolidating information and generating insights. With the SPICE engine, queries are extremely fast even for large datasets, facilitating strategic decision-making based on clear and visual insights.

What is the SPICE engine, and how does it improve performance?

SPICE (Superfast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) is QuickSight’s in-memory analytics engine. It caches data for fast and simultaneous queries, eliminating the need to access the data source every time. This reduces latency, increases scalability, and improves user experience, even for complex analyses.

What types of data sources does Amazon QuickSight support?

QuickSight supports various data sources, including Amazon S3, Redshift, Athena, RDS, and DynamoDB. Additionally, it integrates with external systems such as Google BigQuery, Salesforce, and REST APIs, as well as on-premises databases. This broad connectivity allows the consolidation of multiple data sources into a unified analytics panel.

How does Amazon QuickSight ensure data security and governance?

QuickSight uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for detailed access control. It allows permission configuration by user or group, ensuring that each person sees only the data they are authorized to access. Additionally, encryption in transit and at rest protects sensitive information throughout the analytics lifecycle.

Does Amazon QuickSight support Machine Learning?

Yes, QuickSight supports Machine Learning by integrating with Amazon SageMaker, allowing predictive models to be used directly in dashboards. It also provides automated insights, such as anomaly detection and trend forecasting, which can be easily incorporated into visualizations.

How does Amazon QuickSight offer geospatial analytics?

QuickSight supports geospatial mapping, enabling data visualization on interactive maps. This functionality is widely used in industries such as logistics, regional marketing, and strategic planning to identify patterns and regional trends.