Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Using our cloud-based service you can easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

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Jan 12, 2017
Getting Started with
Amazon QuickSight
XiaoFan Wang

2. What to expect from the session
• Overview of big data and analytics strategy
• Challenges our customers face in big data analytics
• Amazon QuickSight Introduction
• DEMO

3. Many thousands of companies use AWS for big data

4. We start with the customer
We take on the big challenges they have
We innovate

5. We start with the customer… and innovate
Customers told us… We created…
Managing databases is painful and difficult
SQL databases do not perform well at scale
Hadoop is difficult to deploy and manage
Data warehouses are complex, costly, and slow
Commercial DBs are punitive and expensive
Streaming data is difficult to capture and analyze
 Amazon RDS
 Amazon DynamoDB
 Amazon EMR
 Amazon Redshift
 Amazon Aurora
 Amazon Kinesis

6. AnalyzeStore
Amazon
Glacier
Amazon
S3
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon RDS/
Aurora
AWS Data
Pipeline
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
EC2
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
Machine
LearningAWS
Import/Export
AWS Direct
Connect
Collect
Amazon Kinesis
Stream
AWS Database
Migration Service
Amazon
Kinesis
Firehose
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
Amazon
Kinesis
Analytics
Amazon
QuickSight
Athena
Consume
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
AWS big data portfolio
New

7. What are challenges
our customers face with BI tool?

8. Old-guard BI
Costs too much
Pay $ million before seeing first analysis
3 year TCO $150 to $250 per user per month
Takes too long
Spend 6 to 12 months of consulting
and software implementation time

9. Can’t handle NoSQL, streaming data
Time
Cost
Pay $ millions for license and hardware
Requires 6 to 12 months of consulting
Slower performance at scale
Doesn’t deliver fast query performance
Extra $$ for mobile and sharing
Extra $$ for IoT dashboards
Old-guard BI

10. Freedom to get the real value
out of the data you have

11. Introducing
Amazon QuickSight

12. A fast, cloud-powered, BI service for
1/10 the cost of traditional BI software

13. $9
per user per month
With 1 year commitment

14. Business Professionals
Data Consumers
Data
Professionals
Who Is QuickSight For?
QuickSight is designed to give
everyday business users the
flexibility to do easy, self serve
analysis on their data.
QuickSight is also perfect for
delivering published dashboards
throughout the organization.
CMO
Sales Managers
Product Managers
CEOs
Procurement
AWS Ops
Sales Reps
Store Managers
CEOs Warehouse Managers
Support Reps

15. 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.

16. Business user
Sign-in
First analysis in about 60 seconds

17. Business User
QuickSight API
Data prep Metadata SuggestionsConnectors SPICE
Business User
QuickSight UI
Mobile devices Web browsers
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon RDSFiles Apps
Direct connect
JDBC/ODBC
On-premises data
Partner BI products

18. I have multiple datasets both on-premises and on
AWS from different sources, and I need to make
data available and enable access by using
Amazon QuickSight.
How do I do this?

19. Deeply Integrated
QuickSight is deeply integrated with
AWS data sources like Redshift,
RDS, S3 and others, as well as third
party sources like Excel, Salesforce
as well as on-premise databases.
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS, Aurora Amazon Redshift
Flat
Files

20. 1. Data made available in “data lakes” using Amazon S3 or
Amazon Redshift
2. Data access managed with bucket- or schema-level policies
3. Data enabled by using Amazon QuickSight

21. Amazon EMR
or Apache
Hadoop
Log files,
application API
extracts
On-premises data
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
DynamoDB or EC2
based MongoDB,
Cassandra
Amazon
S3
Data made
available in
data lakes
QuickSight
Mobile devices Web browsers
Bucket- or
schema-level
permissions by
user and data
access needs
Data access
managed at
the data lake
Data enabled
by user
in data marts

22. 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
• 2x to 4x compression columnar data
• 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

23. Intuitive visualizations with AutoGraph
• Automatic detection of data types
• Optimal query generation
• Appropriate graph type selection
• Ability to customize the graph type
• Very fast response

24. 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.

25. Tell a story with your data
• Capture the critical snapshot of analysis
• Build a sequence of analysis
• Share it securely
• Enable interactive exploration
• Very fast response

26. Native mobile experience
•iOS, Android
•Full experience on tablets
•Consumption experience on smart phones
•Very fast response

27. An Enterprise
Grade Solution

28. 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.

29. 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)

30. User Management and AD
Integration
QuickSight has admin and users roles to
make sure you have the control you need
over your account.
QuickSight Enterprise Edition can connect
to both your hosted and on-premise Active
Directories via AWS Directory Services

31. Partners
QuickSight has a strong network of ETL
partners to help get your data into
QuickSight. Check out the complete list at
http://quicksight.aws

32. Demo

33. Pricing

34. Individual Standard Edition
(60 Day Free Trial)
Enterprise Edition
(60 Day Free Trial)
Price per user per month Free $9
(Annual)
$12
(Mont to Month)
$18
(Annual)
$24
(Mont to Month)
Number of Users 1 2+ 2+ 2+ 2+
SPICE Capacity (GB)* 10 10 10 10 10
Additional SPICE
GB-month
$0.25 $0.25 $0.38
As an AWS service, QuickSight is a cost effective solution
whether you’re deploying to 10 users or 10,000

35. Pricing Example 2
Pricing Example 1

36. 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

37. Get Started With
Signup today for a free account at:
https://QuickSight.aws

38. Thank you!