Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

You're reading from   Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight Boost your business IQ with Amazon QuickSight

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786466365
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Rajesh Nadipalli Rajesh Nadipalli
Author Profile Icon Rajesh Nadipalli
Rajesh Nadipalli
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Start to QuickSight FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Any Data 3. SPICE up Your Data 4. Intuitive Visualizations 5. Secure Your Environment 6. QuickSight Mobile 7. Big Data Analytics Mini Project 8. QuickSight Product Shortcomings

AWS big data ecosystem


Amazon's big data ecosystem has several software services that enable business insights from data. These services can be broadly classified into four major categories - Collect, Store, Analyze, and Orchestrate, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 2.1: AWS big data ecosystem

Let's look at each category in detail.

Collect

The first step for any BI initiative is to collect data from external systems to Amazon for which AWS has the following services:

  • Direct connect: With direct connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your enterprise data center and provide an easy way to move data files from your applications to AWS for analysis

  • Snowball: Snowball (also known as Import/Export) lets you import hundreds of terabytes of data quickly into AWS using Amazon-provided, secure appliances for secure transport

  • Kinesis and Kinesis Firehose: Kinesis services enable building custom applications that process or analyze streaming data

Store

The data collected...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime