Using QuickSight to visualize data

Although there are multiple third-party visualization tools available to analyze your data and create graphical representations of your logs, there is a native service that Amazon has created for its customers, QuickSight. QuickSight was developed to be a cloud-scale Business Intelligence (BI) service that is easy to use and can ingest data from multiple sources.

Amazon QuickSight uses a proprietary SPICE engine to calculate and serve data. SPICE stands for Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine. This technology has been built to achieve blazing-fast performance at an enterprise scale. The SPICE engine can do this by automatically replicating data, allowing thousands of users to perform queries and analysis on that underlying data at immensely fast speeds.

Another key feature about Amazon QuickSight is that you can share created dashboards with members of your IAM organization. Still, it also has the ability to share access via...