Title

AWS re:Invent 2023 - What’s new with Amazon QuickSight (BSI205)

Summary

Amazon QuickSight is a unified BI tool with serverless components, high performance, auto-scaling, and a pay-as-you-go model.
QuickSight now includes augmented analytics with generative AI capabilities, modern dashboard reporting, legacy-style reporting, natural language query, and ML insights.
Over 600 features have been added to QuickSight, with a focus on cloud-native hyperscale foundation, analytics accessibility, and generative BI.
Four areas of investment for QuickSight features: democratizing data for business users, faster insights for analysts, governance, and APIs for everything.
New visual experiences, mapping capabilities, and enhancements to pivots and tables have been added.
Generative BI allows for AI-powered authoring, insights on demand, and AI-assisted data storytelling.
Analysts have an improved authoring experience, custom time zones, unified field level coloring, paginated reporting, and enhanced data preparation.
Governance improvements include shared restricted folders, fine-grained access granularity, complex row-level security, and integration with IAM Identity Center.
APIs for everything include embedding enhancements, custom action callbacks, and integration with Amazon EventBridge.
QuickSight community and developer corner provide resources and a platform for users to engage and learn.

QuickSight's generative AI capabilities are a significant advancement, allowing users to create visualizations, insights, and narratives using natural language processing.
The focus on democratizing data suggests that QuickSight is aiming to make analytics accessible to a wider range of business users, not just data analysts.
The emphasis on governance and integration with IAM Identity Center indicates a strong commitment to security and proper data management within organizations.
The addition of new data connectors (Starburst, Trino, Google BigQuery) and integration with Amazon SageMaker Canvas shows QuickSight's dedication to expanding its ecosystem and providing more options for data analysis.
The introduction of shared restricted folders and complex row-level security supports the need for more nuanced access control within enterprises.
QuickSight's investment in APIs and embedding capabilities demonstrates its focus on providing a seamless integration experience for developers and enhancing the embedded analytics offering.
The QuickSight community and developer corner are valuable resources for users to collaborate, share knowledge, and stay updated on the latest QuickSight features and best practices.
The integration with AWS cost and usage data and the ability to automate Spice capacity adjustments reflect QuickSight's efforts to streamline operations and cost management for users.