visualizing big data insights with amazon quicksight

Amazon Visualizing Big Data Insights with Amazon QuickSight

Shree Kenghe, Solutions Architect10/26/2016

The explosion of data that is being generated by cloud based applications and services, as well as data that is being migrated to cloud platforms is increasing

exponentially

Cloud Based Applicationsand Services

Migrating On-Prem Data

Big Data Frameworks

While many of our customers utilize 3rd party BI solutions to analyze and report on on their AWS data, most traditional solutions are not

optimized for this new cloud-centric environment

• Require desktop and on-premises server software

• Expensive up-front licensing costs

• Costly infrastructure maintenance

• Long deployment times• Don’t scale efficiently• Complicated user experience

Introducing

Amazon QuickSight Is a Cloud-native Business Analytics Service that lets users Quickly and Easily Visualize, Explore Their Data and Share

Insights.

AWS continues to deliver ground-breaking services for developers and businesses to store, manage, and process your data…

AnalyzeStoreCollect

Amazon Machine Learning

Amazon Kinesis Analytics

AWS Import/Export

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis Firehose

AWS Database Migration

Amazon Glacier

Amazon S3

Amazon CloudSearch

Amazon Dynamo DB

Amazon RDS, Aurora

Amazon ElasticSearch

AWS Data Pipeline

Amazon Redshift

Amazon EMR

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon EC2

New!New!

Business Professionals

(Simple Discovery)

Data Consumption

DataProfessionals

(Heavy Analytics)

Who Is QuickSight For?

QuickSight is designed for everyday business professionals to do fast, easy analysis on their AWS data.

QuickSight is also perfect for delivering published dashboards throughout the organization.

CMO

Sales Managers

Product ManagersCEOs

ProcurementAWS Ops

Sales Reps

Store Managers

CEOs Warehouse Managers

Support Reps

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.

Collaborate, Share and PublishQuickSight 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.

AnalysesAnalyses are visual explorations of your data. Multiple users can collaborate on an analyses with the ability to modify and change them in

any way.

DashboardsYou can share your analyses as read only

dashboards. Viewers can interact with and filter the visualizations without

modifying them.

StoryBoardsLet you combine visualizations into a guided tour that you can

share with other users.

Deeply Integrated

As a natural extension of AWS, QuickSight is deeply integrated with your AWS data sources like Redshift, RDS, S3 and others, as well as third party sources like Excel, Salesforce and more.

Amazon S3

Amazon RDS, Aurora Amazon Redshift

FlatFiles

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• 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

Intelligent Analytics

In future versions QuickSight will leverage machine learning to deliver powerful features like auto suggestions, predictive analytics, and machine generated insights.

+Amazon Machine

Learning

Demo:Retail Sales

Orders

QuickSight’s Workflow

2Amazon Confidential

Flat filesRelational Databases

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

Retail Data

Ops data

Data Sources Data Sets

Marketing data

Analyses Dashboards & Stories

QuickSight + AWS: A Complete Solution

QuickSight + RedshiftRedshift is one the fastest growing services in the AWS platform. QuickSight

seamlessly connects to Redshift giving you native access to all of your instances, and tables.

Amazon Redshift

Achieve high concurrency by offloading end user queries to

SPICE

Calculations can be done in SPICE reducing the load on the underlying

database

QuickSight + S3Amazon S3 holds trillions of objects. QuickSight and SPICE enable you to visualize data files in S3 and

dump data from data lakes onto S3 – then import directly to QuickSight without the need for an intermediate data warehouse.

(Coming)

(Coming)

QuickSight + RDSQuickSight can connect directly to your hosted databases in RDS, allowing users to analyze operational data sources directly rather than relying on an additional DW layer – just like a

data mart.

Amazon RDS

Achieve high concurrency by offloading end user queries to

SPICE

Calculations can be done in SPICE reducing the load on the underlying

database

An Enterprise Grade Solution

Secure SharingHosted 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.

End User Flexibility WITH Centralized ControlQuickSight 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)

Pricing

  Individual Standard Edition Enterprise Edition

Subscription Annual Monthly Annual Monthly

Price per user per month Free For one user *

$9 $12 $18 $24

SPICE Capacity (GB) 1 10 10 10 10

Additional SPICE GB-month $0.25 $0.38

As an AWS service, QuickSight is a cost effective solution whether you’re deploying to 10 users or 10,000

* Free Trial: invite up to four (4) additional users under a two-month free trial

Secure, Scalable, CloudAs 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

Get Started With

Signup up today for a free account at:http://QuickSight.aws.amazon.com