Title

AWS re:Invent 2022 - Migrate to cloud-native business analytics with Amazon QuickSight (BSI202)

Summary

Sean Boone, a product manager on the QuickSight team, introduced Amazon QuickSight as a solution to fragmented BI (Business Intelligence).
QuickSight provides unified BI services at hyperscale, offering modern dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language query capabilities.
Organizations can migrate from maintaining multiple legacy BI systems to a single, modern solution with QuickSight.
QuickSight is serverless, scales efficiently, supports secure sharing with governance, and operates on a pay-per-use pricing model.
Over 100,000 customers use QuickSight, and in 2022, AWS shipped over 80 new features, including paginated reporting and 1 billion row SPICE datasets.
Rahul demonstrated new capabilities, focusing on paginated reporting, which allows for multi-page reports, PDF exports, and scheduled delivery.
Max from Siemens shared how Siemens OpsCenter Intelligence uses QuickSight for manufacturing data analytics, emphasizing the importance of paginated reporting for traceability and regulatory compliance.
QuickSight's paginated reports are an add-on to the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Q editions, with simple pricing and no additional cost to authors or readers.
The session concluded with an invitation to join the QuickSight community and a reminder to complete the session survey.

QuickSight addresses the challenge of fragmented BI by offering a comprehensive suite of analytics tools within a single platform, reducing complexity and inefficiency.
The emphasis on paginated reporting during the session indicates a significant demand for traditional, printable, and distributable reports within modern cloud-native analytics solutions.
The integration of QuickSight with AWS services like IoT, EMR, and S3, as described by Max from Siemens, showcases the platform's ability to handle diverse data sources and support complex enterprise analytics needs.
QuickSight's serverless architecture and usage-based pricing model align with AWS's broader strategy of providing scalable, cost-effective cloud services.
The session highlighted the importance of community engagement and continuous feedback in the development of QuickSight, with the product team actively participating in the QuickSight community.
The presence of a customer speaker from Siemens provided real-world validation of QuickSight's capabilities and benefits, reinforcing the platform's value proposition to potential and existing AWS customers.