Adding QuickSight data sources
In this section, we will learn how to add and configure data sources with Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight supports a number of data sources. We will begin by listing the supported data sources.
Supported data sources with QuickSight
Let's look at the different types of data sources that can be configured in Amazon QuickSight. A very common scenario for BI tools is to drive the visualizations from an analytical database or a data warehouse. Specifically, QuickSight supports the following data warehouses:
- Redshift with autodiscover
- Redshift manual connect
- Snowflake
- Teradata
Note
A use case for Redshift manual connect is when QuickSight and the Redshift cluster are in different AWS Regions.
Other relational database systems that are supported include the following:
- RDS
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Amazon Aurora
- MariaDB
QuickSight also supports the following:
- Amazon Timestream
- Amazon...
