Amazon QuickSight is a fast BI service that makes it easy for you to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight is built to harness the power and scalability of the cloud, so you can easily run analysis on large datasets, and support hundreds of thousands of users. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can easily get started with Amazon QuickSight, uploading files, connecting to S3 and Redshift and creating analyses from visualizations that are optimized based on the underlying data. Once we’ve built our analysis and dashboard, we’ll show you easy it is to share it with colleagues and stakeholders in just a few seconds. And with SPICE – QuickSight’s in-memory calculation engine – you can go from data to insights, faster than ever.

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Dickson Yue
Solutions Architect
Visualizing Big Data Insights with
Amazon QuickSight
January 19, 2017

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

3. Many thousands of companies use AWS for big data

4. 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
Data generated by cloud based
applications and services
Migrating On-Prem Data
Big Data Frameworks

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

6. 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

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

8. We start with the customer… and innovate
Customers told us… We created…
BI tool
Costs too much
Takes too long to implement
Requires 6 to 12 months of consulting
Slower performance at scale
 QuickSight

9. AWS Big Data Portfolio
Collect Store Analyze
Amazon Kinesis
Firehose
AWS Direct
Connect
Amazon
Snowball
Amazon
Kinesis Analytics
Amazon Kinesis
Streams
Amazon S3 Amazon Glacier
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon RDS,
Amazon Aurora
Amazon
Dynamo DB
Amazon Elasticsearch
Service
Amazon EMR Amazon EC2
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon Machine
Learning
Amazon
QuickSight
AWS Data PipelineAWS Database Migration Service AWS Glue
Athena

10. Key Features

11. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, easy to use Business Analytics service
at 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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
Athena

15. 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
• Very fast response time to queries
• Fully managed – No hardware or software to license

16. QuickSight UI
Mobile devices Web browsers
QuickSight API
Data prep Metadata SuggestionsConnectors SPICE
Business User
Direct connect
JDBC/ODBC
On-premises dataAmazon
S3
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon RDSFiles AppsAthena

17. Demo

18. QuickSight + AWS:
A Complete Solution

19. QuickSight + Redshift
Redshift 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

20. QuickSight + S3
Amazon 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.
Athena

21. QuickSight + RDS
QuickSight 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

22. An Enterprise
Grade Solution

23. 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.

24. 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)

25. 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

26. 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

27. Pricing

28. Free Tier
(SINGLE USER)
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

29. Pricing Example 2
Pricing Example 1

30. 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

31. Thank you!

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