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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By: Rajesh Nadipalli

Overview of this book

Amazon QuickSight is the next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) cloud service that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers responsive insights into big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools. This book begins with an introduction to Amazon QuickSight, feature differentiators from traditional BI tools, and how it fits in the overall AWS big data ecosystem. With practical examples, you will find tips and techniques to load your data to AWS, prepare it, and finally visualize it using QuickSight. You will learn how to build interactive charts, reports, dashboards, and stories using QuickSight and share with others using just your browser and mobile app. The book also provides a blueprint to build a real-life big data project on top of AWS Data Lake Solution and demonstrates how to build a modern data lake on the cloud with governance, data catalog, and analysis. It reviews the current product shortcomings, features in the roadmap, and how to provide feedback to AWS. Grow your profits, improve your products, and beat your competitors.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Authorizing connections from QuickSight to AWS data sources


Amazon QuickSight servers need access to RDS instances and Redshift clusters that you want it to connect to. In the next few sections, we will see how to enable these connections to QuickSight.

Creating a new security group for QuickSight

It is a good practice to have a separate security group that can enable QuickSight to access RDS instances, Redshift, and EC2 instances. In this section we will look into the steps for creating this new security group.

Note

At the time this book was authored, the IP range for QuickSight servers was 52.23.63.224/27. This CIDR block is reserved for QuickSight in the US east (North Virginia) region.

Use the following steps to create a new security group with permissions to QuickSight:

  1. From the AWS services listing, select the VPC service, which can also be accessed by using this URL: https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/. From here, click on Security Groups and then on the Create Security Group button as...