deep dive on amazon quicksight - january 2017 aws online tech talks
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Luis Wang, Guy Farber, Amazon
1.16.2017
Deep Dive on Amazon QuickSightBusiness Analytics for Everyone
Agenda
20%What is Amazon QuickSight?
30%Integration with AWS data services
30%Getting started
5%Pricing
5%Summary
Data generated by cloud-based applications and services Big Data frameworks
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.
Migrating on-premises data
Desktop or on-premises software
Expensive up-front licensing costs
Costly infrastructure/maintenance
Long-deployment times
Don’t scale efficiently
Complex end user experience
Many of our customers utilize complex and expensive third-party BI solutions to analyze and report on their data
Web Browser Web Browser Web Browser Web Browser Web Browser Web Browser Web Browser
LOAD BALANCERSSSL Encrypt/Decrypt
Job Scheduler
BI Server 1 BI Server 2
FILE SERVER
Web CatalogFile Share
DATA WAREHOUSESERVERData Warehouse
Connector for Java Web Server
VM/WTSBI Admin Tool
BI Java Host Daemon
BI Presentation Services Daemon
MetadataRepository
BI Server Daemon
Connector for Java Web Server
Connector for Java Web Server
Connector for Java Web Server
MetadataRepository
Red Hat Enterprise AS 32 Bit Linux
VM/ESX
BI Java Host Daemon
BI Presentation Services Daemon
BI Server Daemon
Amazon QuickSight is a Business Analytics Service that lets business users quickly and easily visualize, explore, and share insights from their data.
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.
Who Is QuickSight For? DATA PROFESSIONALS
BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS
DATA CONSUMERS
Store Managers
Sales RepsCEOs
Support Reps
Warehouse ManagersSales Managers
CMO
CEOs
AWS Ops
Product Managers
Procurement
Getting Started
QuickSight has admin and user roles to make sure you have the control you need over your account.
QuickSight Enterprise Edition can connect to both your hosted and on-premises Active Directories via AWS Directory Services.
User Management and AD Integration
Microsoft Active Directory
Basic Concepts
DATA SETSDATA SOURCES ANALYSES DASHBOARDS & STORIES
Retail Data
Ops Data
Marketing Data
RelationalDatabases
Flat Files
More data sources
coming soon!
QuickSight is deeply integrated with AWS data sources like Redshift, RDS, S3, Athena and others, as well as third-party sources like Excel, Salesforce, as well as on-premises databases.
Deep Integration with AWS Data Sources
Amazon RDS, Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Athena
Amazon S3
Flat Files
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 EngineCompiled queries with machine code generationRich calculations Rapid response time to queriesFully managed—no hardware or software to license
Super-fast Performance with SPICE
SPICE
Optional step when creating data sets.
Preview dataRename, remove fields, change data typesCreate new calculated fieldsFilter rowsIssue direct query or ingest to SPICEVisually join tables from the same relational DBPush down custom SQL queries
Data Prep
QuickSight combines an elegant, easy-to-use interface with blazing fast performance powered by SPICE to get users from data to insights faster than ever before.
Fast, Easy Ad-Hoc Analytics for End Users
QuickSight lets 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.
AnalysesAnalyses are visual explorations of your data. Multiple users can collaborate on an analyses with the ability to modify and change them in any way.
StoryboardsLet you combine visualizations into a guided tour that you can share with other users.
DashboardsYou can share your analyses as read only dashboards. Viewers can interact with and filter the visualizations without modifying them.
Collaborate, Share, and Publish
QuickSight + AWS Data ServicesA Complete Solution
Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse. QuickSight seamlessly connects to Redshift giving you native access to all of your clusters and tables.
QuickSight + Amazon Redshift
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.
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. QuickSight connects directly to your RDS managed databases, allowing users to analyze operational data sources directly rather than relying on an additional DW layer—just like a data mart.
QuickSight + Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Calculations can be done in SPICE reducing the load on the underlying database
Amazon S3 is a scalable, durable, and ease to manage storage platform. QuickSight and SPICE enable you to visualize data files in an S3 data lake without the need for an intermediate data warehouse.
QuickSight + Amazon S3, Athena
Amazon Athena
Demo
Pricing
Pricing
Individual Standard Edition(60 day free trial)
Enterprise Edition(60 day free trial)
Price per user per month Free $9(Annual)
$12(Month to Month)
$18(Annual)
$24(Month to Month)
Number of users 1 2+ 2+ 2+ 2+
SPICE capacity (GB)* 1 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.
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
Secure, Scalable Cloud
