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Tag: Amazon Quicksight

Embed multi-tenant analytics in applications with Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight recently introduced four new features—embedded authoring, namespaces for multi-tenancy, custom user permissions, and account-level customizations—that, with existing dashboard embedding and API capabilities available in the Enterprise Edition, allow you to integrate advanced dashboarding and analytics capabilities within SaaS applications. Developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) who build these applications can now offer embedded, […]

Enable fine-grained permissions for Amazon QuickSight authors in AWS Lake Formation

This post demonstrates how to extend the Lake Formation security model to QuickSight users and groups, which allows data lake administrators to manage data catalog resource permissions centrally from one console. As organizations embark on the journey to secure their data lakes with Lake Formation, having the ability to centrally manage fine-grained permissions for QuickSight authors can extend the data governance and enforcement of security controls at the data consumption (business intelligence) layer. You can enable these fine-grained permissions for QuickSight users and groups at the database, table, or column level, and they’re reflected in the Athena dataset in QuickSight.

Enforce column-level authorization with Amazon QuickSight and AWS Lake Formation

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights and integrates seamlessly with your data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). QuickSight users in your organization often need access to only a subset of columns for compliance and security reasons. Without having a proper solution […]

Build an automatic data profiling and reporting solution with Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon QuickSight

This post demonstrates how to extend the metadata contained in the Data Catalog with profiling information calculated with an Apache Spark application based on the Amazon Deequ library running on an EMR cluster. You can query the Data Catalog using the AWS CLI. You can also build a reporting system with Athena and Amazon QuickSight to query and visualize the data stored in Amazon S3.

Speed up your ELT and BI queries with Amazon Redshift materialized views

The Amazon Redshift materialized views function helps you achieve significantly faster query performance on repeated or predictable workloads such as dashboard queries from Business Intelligence (BI) tools, such as Amazon QuickSight. It also speeds up and simplifies extract, load, and transform (ELT) data processing. You can use materialized views to store frequently used precomputations and […]

Query, visualize, and forecast TruFactor web session intelligence with AWS Data Exchange

This post showcases TruFactor Intelligence-as-a-Service data on AWS Data Exchange. TruFactor’s anonymization platform and proprietary AI ingests, filters, and transforms more than 85 billion high-quality raw signals daily from wireless carriers, OEMs, and mobile apps into a unified phygital consumer graph across physical and digital dimensions. TruFactor intelligence is application-ready for use within any AWS analytics or ML service to power your models and applications running on AWS, with no additional processing required.

Build a cloud-native network performance analytics solution on AWS for wireless service providers

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This post demonstrates a serverless, cloud-based approach to building a network performance analytics solution using AWS services that can provide flexibility and performance while keeping costs under control with pay-per-use AWS services. […]

A public data lake for analysis of COVID-19 data

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten and take lives around the world, we must work together across organizations and scientific disciplines to fight this disease. Innumerable healthcare workers, medical researchers, scientists, and public health officials are already on the front lines caring for patients, searching for […]

Ingest Excel data automatically into Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. This post demonstrates how to build a serverless data ingestion pipeline to automatically import frequently changed data into a SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) dataset of Amazon QuickSight dashboards. It is sometimes […]

Build machine learning-powered business intelligence analyses using Amazon QuickSight

Imagine you can see the future—to know how many customers will order your product months ahead of time so you can make adequate provisions, or to know how many of your employees will leave your organization several months in advance so you can take preemptive actions to encourage staff retention. For an organization that sees […]