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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

Managing users and access


There are two types of users supported by QuickSight: the first type of user is the AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) user and the second type is the user managed completely within QuickSight. If your enterprise has IAM-managed users, this is the recommended approach since IAM enables the admin to securely control access to all AWS services and resources, including QuickSight.

For a QuickSight standard edition account, you can set up up to 100 user accounts, including the root account used to create the QuickSight account. To increase this limit, you can raise an AWS service limit request by opening a support case with AWS support.

To manage users, you must have administrator privileges. Let's review how to add, reactivate, and delete users.

Adding new users

To invite others to your QuickSight account, you just need a valid e-mail address or IAM user account name.

User account creation is a two-step process: first you send an invitation to join, which creates...