Introducing Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence (BI) cloud-native service. BI developers use QuickSight to develop data visualizations and dashboards and report the state of the business. Being cloud-native BI software, QuickSight can scale to thousands of users without the need to provision additional compute capacity. In fact, the concept of compute capacity doesn't exist in QuickSight: AWS is responsible for scaling QuickSight up or down when demand grows or shrinks, while BI developers focus on developing data visualizations.
Next, we will define the following core concepts of QuickSight:
- Datasets
- Analysis
- Visuals and insights
- Dashboards
Datasets
QuickSight datasets are the data imported into QuickSight for visualization; a dataset can be built from one or more data sources. Amazon QuickSight supports a number of data sources. Datasets can either be cached in QuickSight (SPICE, which we will cover later in this chapter...
