Sure, here is the information you requested about Amazon QuickSight:
How Amazon QuickSight Works
- Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed business intelligence service.
- It connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources.
- It saves your prepared data either in SPICE memory or as a direct query.
- You can use a variety of data sources for analysis.
- When you create an analysis, the typical workflow includes creating a new analysis, adding new or existing datasets, choosing fields to create the first chart, adding more charts, tables, or insights to the analysis, and publishing the analysis as a dashboard to share it with other people.
Benefits of Amazon QuickSight
- It powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence at hyperscale.
- All users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries.
- It allows your business to deliver easy-to-understand insights to users, regardless of their location.
- It offers user-management tools that allow users to easily manage and scale systems.
Limitations of Amazon QuickSight
- There are quotas for Amazon QuickSight per AWS account, per AWS Region.
- There are limits on Amazon QuickSight resources for each file system in an AWS Region.
- For operations such as connecting, sampling data for a dataset, and generating visuals, timeouts can occur.
- The current way QuickSight limits the number of points displayed in a scatter plot is less than ideal and confusing.
- You can add more than 30 visuals with the limit being 50. You get a warning of possible performance regression.
Use Cases for Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon QuickSight has several essential use cases for Data Analysts and Data Engineers such as interactive ad-hoc data exploration and visualization.