Amazon QuickSight Reviews

Amazon quicksight is an economic analysis, quick and easy.runs entirely in the AWS cloud, has good access to Amazon data sources and fair access to other data sources, and offers basic analysis and data manipulation at a basic price.

Once you have data sets, you can create analyses with one or more visualizations, which you can organize into dashboards and stories. You can share data sets, dashboards, and stories within your organization.

As we’ll see, QuickSight makes this process quite easy and straightforward, but it lacks some useful visualization capabilities found in competing tools.

Quicksight is very efficient because you can use it anywhere and at any time, you are able to choose your data source, it can be integrated with the popular BI tools and much more.

It is a business analysis service powered by the cloud that facilitates the creation of visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis and quickly obtain information from your data.Well, if you want to start using the quick view, do not give problems, because it is easy and fast.

It's highly integrated with data on AWS, and it's very easy to set up basic use cases.

The cost is very low compare to other solutions

It's easy for IT to set up additional account

It's quick to do simple things

It takes less than 1 hour to setup

Compare to Tableau or other focused solution, Amazon QuickSight still lacks a lot of customization features.

Limited data visualization type (only a few simple and popular charts)

No realtime co-edit feature.

No easy way to share or publish dashboard with people outside your aws accounts. If you need to share the web form of the dashboard, you will need to create aws account and then add quicksight account for your customer. Ideally you would want some URL that you can share with some basic authentication and zero cost.

No easy report export (e.g. PDF / excel export)

One thing I noticed is QuickSight has not been adding feature since 2017.

Quick dashboard set up for data in AWS.

Quickly build dashboard w/ basic visualization for data in Redshift / S3

Our goal was to generate a set of metrics quickly base on data we store in AWS, we don't want to download data and process offline which is too much manual work, we wanted cloud native solution since our data are in AWS.

The reporting capability is very good, and multiple departments can access the reports across the company, which helps collaboration and efficiency. The product has a great, but basic analytic and reporting capabilities which is great for creating basic reports by business users. You can get your business insight right away without building a complete infrastructure around it and paying a fortune. Another great feature is that due to its hosted in AWS, integration with multiple data storage services of Amazon Web Services is readily available. It also gives you real time monitoring which gives you the option to make and necessary changes in the reports

If you want to share your reports with business users who are not in IAM, you are facing challenges. This is just a basic tool that does not thick every boxes. For example, reports are not updated real time (data is not real time in reports), which makes this tool a bit unreliable and less usable, as main decisions can't be made based on the data from these reports. It also limits the usage of the tool.If you want to build a complex report for the business, you need to get help from a technical person, like IT.

I strongly suggest everybody try the free 60 days trial edition before making a purchase. This product is best for small enterprises only, due to its limitations. It is a nice little tool, but be aware of its limitations.

QuickSight is available for free for 60 days, so you have the option to try it out before purchasing. It runs completely in AWS cloud, and has a good access to Amazon and other multiple data sources. It offers basic BI capabilities, analysis and data manipulation tools at a basic price. It is very similar to PowerBI, but it is not depending on any desktop product

I really love the integration with AWS and how easy it is to get my RDS to work directly with QuickSight. The fact that I can manage everything with AWS is great and preferable to actually working with multiple system and connectors.

There is a severe lack of ability to make custom fields, group bys, and other features that other BI solutions excel at. For example I wish I could have the functionality to really customize some level of detail expressions as well as more control over the colors and styles of the visualizations. Currently it is not flexible enough to meet most of my customers needs. For example my customers will not only want high level looks but also want to drill down and pull out tables of data which seems like it is implemented but is not robust enough.

Give the trial a fair shake, try and develop a dashboard / data solution that would mimic a setup that your typical end user would like to see.

BI on demand for small start ups to answer key business questions and KPI management. So far though we havent been able to convince the teams that it is enough insight provided in a easily digestable format and flexible enough to provide drill down data when deeper analysis is required.

The data retrieval & processing part is easier to handle esp since we are on AWS cloud platform. The tool suits more technical roles - product / engineering since they do more of the geeky analytical stuff & analysis is raw so they don't have to spend time beautifying data.

We do struggle to manage data outside of cloud so other analytical packages such as Tableau & Qlik score on those aspects. Business teams will find it difficult to adopt Quicksight since scope for customizable dashboards & visualization is extremely limited.

Pulling network level advertising user data at a log-level for granular analysis around bidding & prediction

It helps to find the page easily that we are looking. it is secure fast and interactive towards the customer and also really provide only read only access to its members. it is safe to use it. I would really recommend this software who is really looking to sell or buy things. it keeps our data secure and locked. it is also cost effective and good one

I don't have any dislikes or negative view towards this software. This allows secure and faster processing and to find out the things or product. it is innovative and with quick sight features that provides the products that we are looking for could be able to search and make a purchase. This is an awesome feature that amzon provides to find the things

all good and secure and faster

we are able to quickly different products and services available and could use them

This extremely fast pay per session cloud based service is amazing. With QuickSight we have the ability to make different dashboards that can either be accessed from any device or embedded into an application, which is what we did. We chose them mainly because of the pay per session feature that they have. This allows us to only have to pay for what we actually use. With no upfront costs and no annual fee these guys are hard to beat.

I wish it was a little easier to embed into a 3rd party app

Used to create dashboards for our company

I like the ability to easily create and share data visualizations (graphs, pie charts, etc) from existing datasets in aws redshift. The ease of use is also a huge plus. Sharing visualizations with people not on your aws account with quicksight only accounts is a plus, although when I last used it invites were by email only via. The web app.

When I last used it in a significantly large redshift table (1b+ records) visualizations took time to generate (as all the data couldn't fit into cache) which is fine if you have time and don't care about connections being open to your cluster for a while - but as a developer it's much much faster to directly query the db and get the information you need.

Connect it to your database / upload some data sets and play around with it - because of how easy it is to use you'll very quickly understand whether quicksight is suitable for your project.

Visualization of developer data sets to management / people that we didn't want to have direct db access.

I really appreciate the flexibility of pricing plans. It’s either 18 dollars a month or .30 cents a session which is defined as a half hour. It makes it easier to pay for just what I’m using. If I feel like I need a significant amount of time I can just pay for the month, if I just need to check in every other day or once a week .60 cents and hour is NOTHING

I actually don’t have any dislikes. I think it’s a super useful tool and the price is right.

We have been able to organize our data and use on a trial basis with a few of our customers. It’s good for the basics, but for more complex reports you’re going to want help from IT

Interface and features are presented in a simple and easy to use fashion

Unfortunately, QuickSight offers the barest minimum of features compared to industry leaders like Power BI and Tableau. Ability to integrate other data sources is very limited, visualizations are overly simplistic, and interactive usage is very hampered by lack of features.

Look elsewhere

At this point, essentially none. We had hoped to utilize this as a potential alternative to other tools such as Power BI and Tableau but after multiple team members explored it we realized there were essentially no use cases where we would choose QuickSight vs. competitors.

The cost can't be beat. While the package lacks many of the bells an whistles that's in Tableau or Looker, it has all the basics and gets the job done for 90% of our users.

The user interface is a bit messy. Location of filters and items aren't intuitive, but easy to use once you get the hang of things.

No frills visualization tool that's economical

We use it to give users access to recurring reports.

The ease of importing data from AWS storage

Lack of visual customization, UX (looks pretty but flow could be improved)

Easily visualizing data without having to set up Tableau. Keeping data within the AWS ecosystem.

Cost structure and ease of setup. That is all I liked.

Chart options are limited.

Data errors occur for no apparent reason on basic numeric data.

Support is slow to respond (this was around the time of the AWS trade show, so YMMV).

No way to deploy code across AWS accounts (promoting from Dev to Prod)

It was not clear how to provide multi-tenant security in a pooled tenant model.

Wait until Q3 2018

POC only

Quick sight is truly a user friendly experience. I was able to pick it up very fast making my day to day a lot easier

The program is entirely proprietary making it unusable with other programs

As the name of the program states it's best benefit is the fact that you don't have to dig around for the information you need it's readily available.

QS is really cheap and also very easy to manage

There are maximum of 20 visuals in an analysis

Dashboards are accessible

Direct queries on DB both on premise and cloud

Poor graphical customization on graphs. Geolocation recognition Limited.

Not possibile to add data with "zero" on Series Like time Series (can be done through SQL query), not directly on graphs.

Dashboards for remote monitoring of production chain.

I like the fact that it visualizes everything beautifully. The drill down feature is also appreciated.

I don't like the fact that it sometimes can't show any data.

I use Amazon QuickSight to visualize billing. Its visualization allows more people to be aware about it.

It is very user friendly, fast and supportive. Simple and very easy to access. I have had a very good experience with it.

It is simple but little raw and cannot be used as primary reporting tool.

I would surely recommend it

Fast and easy

Quicksight is very easy to use, the interface is very intuitive. Getting from data to visualization was very fast.

It could use some more sophisticated features. The basics are good but seems like it could be easily expanded.

Visualization of manufacturing data.

Direct queries on Db both on premise and in Cloud

Poor graphic customization on gratis

Replicato in recognition limited

Not possibile to interpolate data with "zero" directly on graphs.

Production chain remote monitoring dashboards

A team can share key analytics pushed from AWS

The UI could look better, kind of blocky.

Instead of reading DB Tables for key analytics I can simply project onto a QuickSight Dashboard.

How simple it is to use and I can do so much on it

It’s a bit too simple and I think it could use a couple more features

More time

Ease of use to create dashboards from various sources

The interface can be a little better for the options

To build quick dashboards from various data sources

It’s a fun tool to work with. Easy to use

Sharing ability, can get really slow at times

Data analytics, forecasting