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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

By : Manos Samatas
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Actionable Insights with Amazon QuickSight

By: Manos Samatas

Overview of this book

Amazon Quicksight is an exciting new visualization that rivals PowerBI and Tableau, bringing several exciting features to the table – but sadly, there aren’t many resources out there that can help you learn the ropes. This book seeks to remedy that with the help of an AWS-certified expert who will help you leverage its full capabilities. After learning QuickSight’s fundamental concepts and how to configure data sources, you’ll be introduced to the main analysis-building functionality of QuickSight to develop visuals and dashboards, and explore how to develop and share interactive dashboards with parameters and on-screen controls. You’ll dive into advanced filtering options with URL actions before learning how to set up alerts and scheduled reports. Next, you’ll familiarize yourself with the types of insights before getting to grips with adding ML insights such as forecasting capabilities, analyzing time series data, adding narratives, and outlier detection to your dashboards. You’ll also explore patterns to automate operations and look closer into the API actions that allow us to control settings. Finally, you’ll learn advanced topics such as embedded dashboards and multitenancy. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with QuickSight’s BI and analytics functionalities that will help you create BI apps with ML capabilities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight and the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
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Section 2: Advanced Dashboarding and Insights
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Section 3: Advanced Topics and Management

Introducing multitenancy using namespaces

In this section, we will introduce the concept of multitenancy in Amazon QuickSight. Based on what we have learned so far, a user that owns a QuickSight asset can share the resource with any other registered user in the account. However, there are use cases where a single QuickSight account needs to support multiple tenants.

Understanding multitenancy

QuickSight offers features that allow developers to build multi-tenant business intelligence (BI) platforms. Due to its cloud-native architecture, QuickSight scales automatically depending on the number of users. This feature, coupled with QuickSight's embedding capabilities and its API actions that can be accessed programmatically, helps developers to implement multi-tenant BI platforms.

A key characteristic of a multi-tenant platform is that tenants don't interact with each other, which effectively prevents a tenant from granting (or revoking) access to users belonging to...