Document History: What's New in the Amazon QuickSight User Guide
This page describes changes to the Amazon QuickSight User Guide and Amazon QuickSight console changes that include a documentation update. For notifications about documentation changes, subscribe to the RSS feed using the icon near the top of this page.
New Amazon QuickSight releases appear in different AWS Regions over a period of time,
beginning with
the first Region on the initial release date. Documentation is released in coordination
with
this process. If you have questions, contact AWS Support
To find out about changes to the Amazon QuickSight service, see Recent Announcements for Analytics – Amazon QuickSight
The following table describes important changes in each Amazon QuickSight User Guide release since March 4, 2019.
In the Kindle guide version, you can find the last change date above the table of contents. On the Kindle website, the original publication date is unchanged.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
|
Start curating data |
Amazon QuickSight now enables you to add column or field descriptions to datasets. This metadata is visible in both datasets and analyses, helping you make your data self-explanatory. For more information, see Describing Data. |
October 23, 2020 |
|
Filter across datasets |
In Amazon QuickSight, you can now create filters that apply to multiple datasets in an analysis. For more information, see Filtering Data. |
October 23, 2020 |
|
Filter control improvements |
Amazon QuickSight now offers a filter control that you can add to your analysis with a single click. You can put filters beside dashboard visuals and resize them to fit. For more information, see Using Filter Controls. |
October 5, 2020 |
|
New data source |
Amazon QuickSight now supports Amazon Timestream as a data source. For more information, see Using Amazon Timestream Data with QuickSight. |
October 1, 2020 |
|
Export to Excel |
Amazon QuickSight now supports exporting data from pivot tables and table charts to Microsoft Excel (.xslx) format. For more information, see Exporting Data. |
September 14, 2020 |
|
Duplicate sheets |
Amazon QuickSight now supports duplicating sheets. For more information, see Working with Multiple Sheets in an Amazon QuickSight Analysis. |
September 14, 2020 |
|
Customize labels of totals and subtotals |
In Amazon QuickSight, you can now add custom text to display beside totals and subtotals for pivot tables and table charts. For more information, see Displaying Totals and Subtotals. |
September 14, 2020 |
|
Troubleshoot skipped row |
When you import data into Amazon QuickSight, you now get better error messages and row-by-row information on what caused rows to be skipped during ingestion into SPICE. For more information, see Troubleshooting Skipped Rows. |
September 12, 2020 |
|
New configuration option for multivalue lists |
Amazon QuickSight now supports a configuration option for multivalue lists to start with no values selected. For more information, see Setting Up Parameters in Amazon QuickSight. |
September 11, 2020 |
|
Format charts with reference lines |
Amazon QuickSight now supports using reference lines in bar, line, and combo charts. For more information, see Reference Lines. |
September 3, 2020 |
|
New table calculations |
Amazon QuickSight now supports using window functions |
August 25, 2020 |
|
Multivalue default parameters |
Amazon QuickSight now supports dynamic default values for multi-valued parameters. For more information, see Creating Parameter Defaults in Amazon QuickSight. |
August 25, 2020 |
|
Last active status for users |
Amazon QuickSight administrators can now see the last date and time that people accessed QuickSight. For more information, see Viewing User Details. |
August 25, 2020 |
|
Join SQL queries, tables, and files |
Amazon QuickSight now supports using custom SQL queries in joins with other queries, tables, and files. For more information, see Joining Data. |
August 25, 2020 |
|
Calculated expressions editor |
The enhanced editor adds ease-of-use features to help you more easily create calculated expressions in Amazon QuickSight. With the new full-screen editor, you can add functions and values directly from the menu. For more information, see Adding a Calculated Field to an Analysis. |
August 25, 2020 |
|
Personal and shared folders |
Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition now offers personal and shared folders to make it easier to discover, organize, share, and explore your available assets. For more information, see Organizing Amazon QuickSight Assets into Folders. |
August 5, 2020 |
|
Embed the Amazon QuickSight console |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can now provide the full dashboard authoring experience of the QuickSight console in your own custom-branded authoring portal. For more information, see Embedding the Amazon QuickSight Console. |
July 23, 2020 |
|
Datasets with 2,000 columns |
Amazon QuickSight now supports datasets that have up to 2,000 columns. For more information, see Data Source Limits. |
July 23, 2020 |
|
Customized permissions |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can now create custom roles to restrict a person from using specific functionality in the Amazon QuickSight console, for example to control who can manage data sources and datasets or who can manage or subscribe to email reports. For more information, see Customizing Access to the Amazon QuickSight Console. |
July 23, 2020 |
|
Customize the console |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can now choose whether to show or hide QuickSight startup samples and videos. You can also create and specify a default theme to add branding to your experience of the QuickSight console. For more information, see Customizing the Amazon QuickSight Console. |
July 23, 2020 |
|
Amazon QuickSight support for multitenancy |
In Enterprise edition, QuickSight now offers an additional layer of security to support multitenancy. By creating users and groups in a QuickSight namespace, you can isolate them from users and groups in other namespaces. For more information, see Supporting Multitenancy with Isolated Namespaces. |
July 23, 2020 |
|
Larger SPICE datasets |
Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition now supports SPICE datasets with up to 250 million (250,000,000) rows or 500 GB. For more information, see Data Source Limits. |
July 9, 2020 |
|
Display width settings |
In Amazon QuickSight, you can now choose between responsive and fixed layouts for your analyses and dashboards. You can also temporarily change your current view from the menu bar. For more information, see Display Settings. |
July 9, 2020 |
|
Data refresh notifications |
Amazon QuickSight now supports sending email to notify SPICE dataset owners when data refresh fails. For more information, see Refreshing Data. |
July 9, 2020 |
|
Color settings for heatmaps and treemaps |
You can now customize gradient colors for your heatmaps and treemaps in Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see Changing Colors on Heatmaps and Treemaps. |
July 9, 2020 |
|
Font choice |
You can now customize your theme with a font. Choose from a selection of fonts supported by Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see Using Themes in Amazon QuickSight. |
July 8, 2020 |
|
AWS Lake Formation |
If you use Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition to query Amazon Athena, you can simplify data access management by using AWS Lake Formation to control permissions to Athena. For more information, see Authorizing Connections through AWS Lake Formation. |
June 29, 2020 |
|
New chart type |
Amazon QuickSight now supports using histograms so you can display the distribution of values in your data. For more information, see Histogram charts. |
June 12, 2020 |
|
Gauge chart update |
You can now add conditional formatting to gauge charts in Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see Adding Conditional Formatting to Visuals. |
June 12, 2020 |
|
Five new languages |
Amazon QuickSight now supports Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish. These languages expand upon the existing 15 languages already available in Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see Choosing a Language in Amazon QuickSight. |
June 12, 2020 |
|
New Region: Mumbai |
Amazon QuickSight is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1). For more information, see AWS Regions, Websites, IP Address Ranges, and Endpoints. |
June 3, 2020 |
|
New SQL editor |
Amazon QuickSight enhanced the SQL editor that you use to create datasets from SQL queries. The new SQL editor supports syntax highlighting, basic autocomplete, autoindent, and line numbering. Also, you can use the new schema explorer to interactively explore schemas, tables, fields, and data types. For more information, see Using a SQL Query. |
May 20, 2020 |
|
SageMaker integration now generally available |
The integration of SageMaker with Amazon QuickSight launched in preview just before AWS re:Invent 2019. Now, this feature is generally available in all AWS Regions that are supported by QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight and SageMaker together makes it faster, easier, and more cost-effective for customers to make use of their machine learning models for visualization and predictions. For more information, see Amazon QuickSight Integration with SageMaker. |
May 19, 2020 |
|
Update to Presto data sources |
You can now use nonauthenticated private Presto as a data source. For more information, see Creating a Data Source Using Presto. |
May 18, 2020 |
|
Rewrite of Amazon QuickSight VPC connection section |
Based on your feedback, we completely rewrote this documentation to better explain using Amazon VPC with Amazon QuickSight. It includes examples and AWS CLI commands to help you establish the path from Amazon QuickSight to your data source, even if you're using on-premises sources. For more information, see Amazon QuickSight VPC Connections. |
May 18, 2020 |
|
Use logarithmic scale with Amazon QuickSight |
You can now format visuals using log scale. For more information, see Changing the Visual Scale. |
May 1, 2020 |
|
Severity levels for Amazon QuickSight anomaly detection insights |
You can now choose the level of severity for anomalies that display in your insight widgets. For more information, see Using Anomaly Detection. |
April 17, 2020 |
|
Improvements to visual controls in Amazon QuickSight |
The on-visual menu can now float at the upper-right corner of the visual, moving inside or outside the border of the visual. Plus, you can make your visuals smaller and have more of them, as many as 36 across. For smaller visuals, the new visual controls have more viewing area for charts and insights. To see the new menu, choose one of your visuals. For more information, see Working with Visuals. |
April 17, 2020 |
|
Amazon QuickSight adds a new visual type |
The new visual type, stacked area line charts, is similar to area charts except that the stacked values indicate the relationship that each value contributes to the whole. Using stacked area charts, you can display cumulative totals over time while displaying the breakdown by the chosen category. For more information, see Line charts. |
April 17, 2020 |
|
Amazon QuickSight activates legends by adding menus for quick feature access |
Amazon QuickSight now supports clicking on legend items to quickly access features like filtering, drilling, chart colors, and custom actions for filtering and URLs. For more information, see Focusing on Visual Elements and Custom Actions in QuickSight. |
April 17, 2020 |
|
Amazon QuickSight adds cascading filters |
You can now create cascading filters by adding them to custom actions in your analyses and dashboards. Each custom filter action can target one or more visuals in the same sheet, creating a cascading filter effect. For more information, see Custom Actions in QuickSight. |
April 2, 2020 |
|
Modulo operation available in Amazon QuickSight |
You can now use modulo operation to find the remainder after dividing one number into another. For more information, see mod. |
March 8, 2020 |
|
Images in Amazon QuickSight narratives |
You can now insert images from URLs to be rendered as part of a narrative. Images can be resized, conditionally shown within an IF block, and also hyperlinked with the URL feature. For more information, see Expression Editor Screen and Menus. |
March 8, 2020 |
|
Amazon QuickSight adds minimum and maximum dates |
You can now use minimum and maximum date aggregations in tables and pivot tables. For more information, see max and min. |
March 8, 2020 |
|
Now you can customize minimum delta values to enhance Amazon QuickSight ML-powered anomaly detection |
Now you can control the minimum delta value that Amazon QuickSight uses to detect anomalies (also known as outliers). You can change this setting when you are configuring or exploring anomalies. For more information, see Detecting Outliers with ML-Powered Anomaly Detection. |
February 4, 2020 |
|
Improvements in the Amazon QuickSight narrative expression editor |
Amazon QuickSight now provides a much more spacious interface for editing narrative expressions. The interface now has instant feedback in a preview of your evaluated narrative before you save any changes. Plus, narratives now support both static and dynamic URLs in your custom narratives for links to searches, apps, other dashboards, other sheets in the same dashboard, and more. For more information, see Using Autonarratives. |
February 4, 2020 |
|
SageMaker integration now available in more AWS Regions |
The public preview for integrating SageMaker with Amazon QuickSight is now available in all of the AWS Regions that are supported by QuickSight. For more information, see Amazon QuickSight Integration with SageMaker. |
January 10, 2020 |
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Private VPC support for Presto in Amazon QuickSight |
Now Presto can use a VPC connection. For more information, see Supported Data Sources for VPC. |
December 10, 2019 |
|
New mathematical functions in Amazon QuickSight |
Amazon QuickSight now supports functions for base 10 logarithms ( |
December 10, 2019 |
|
New LAA functions in Amazon QuickSight |
Now you can use |
December 10, 2019 |
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Amazon QuickSight now enables you to choose an Amazon Athena workgroup |
By choosing an Athena workgroup, you can better manage your Athena datasets. Using this option, you can also allocate Athena costs to the workgroup that QuickSight is using, for better cost reporting. For more information, see Creating a Dataset Using Amazon Athena. |
December 10, 2019 |
|
Integrate SageMaker ML models into your Amazon QuickSight analyses and dashboards |
In this public preview, Amazon QuickSight launches the ability to integrate machine learning (ML) models created and trained in SageMaker. This new feature makes it easier to augment your business data with ML predictions. Add your data scientists' prebuilt inferences and predictions to your analysts' dashboards, and let the collaboration and decision-making begin. For more information, see Amazon QuickSight Integration with SageMaker. |
November 26, 2019 |
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New formatting options for visuals in Amazon QuickSight |
Amazon QuickSight launches more formatting for visuals and visuals titles, including font sizes from extra small to extra large. In key performance indicators (KPIs), you can set font sizes for primary and comparison values. In pivot tables and tables, you can see font sizes for table headers, cells, totals, and subtotals. Now your visuals render better even when smaller and with less padding between charts. For combo charts, you can now synchronize the Y-axes for both bars and lines into a single axis. For more information, see Formatting a Visual. |
November 23, 2019 |
|
New Amazon QuickSight API operations |
Amazon QuickSight launches new API operations to programmatically manage your data, dashboards, and fine-grained access control capabilities linked with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). With new data API operations, you can create, update, and delete Amazon QuickSight data sources and datasets programmatically. You can also manage data refreshes on your SPICE data sets with API operations. Amazon QuickSight also introduces templates, which store the visual configuration and data schemas required for a dashboard. You can transfer templates across accounts or use them to instantiate dashboards with the same visual presentation but different data. For more information, see the Amazon QuickSight API Reference. |
November 22, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight supports the now function in SPICE |
For more information, see |
November 22, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight now supports seconds in SPICE |
Seconds are now supported in SPICE data sets. Datetime fields are no longer truncated
to
minutes. Now you can use the |
November 22, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight now has themes |
You can now create a collection of themes, and apply a theme to an analysis and all its dashboards. For more information, see Using Themes in Amazon QuickSight. |
November 22, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight now supports conditional formatting for tables, pivot tables, and key performance indicators (KPIs). |
For tables and pivot tables, you can set multiple conditions for fields or supported aggregations, along with format options to apply to a target cell. For KPIs, you can format the primary value based on conditions that are applied to any dimension in the dataset. The conditional formatting options now supported are text color, background color, and placement of supported icons. You can use icons from the provided set, or you can use Unicode icons instead. For more information, see Adding Conditional Formatting to Visuals. |
November 18, 2019 |
|
View history for SPICE ingestion on your Amazon QuickSight datasets |
You can now view the ingestion history for SPICE datasets in Amazon QuickSight. See information like when the latest ingestion started, how long it took, and what its status is. For more information, see View SPICE Ingestion History. |
November 7, 2019 |
|
Add your own functionality to visuals with Amazon QuickSight actions |
Amazon QuickSight enables you to add to the basic functionality for visuals by creating your own custom actions for filtering or opening URLs. For more information, see Custom Actions in Amazon QuickSight. |
November 7, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight now supports dynamic sheet titles |
You can now use parameters in sheet titles to make the context of a dashboard clearer to the reader. For more information, see Formatting a Visual. |
November 6, 2019 |
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Use Amazon QuickSight to join data from multiple data sources |
Amazon QuickSight now supports creating datasets that join multiple data sources. For more information, see Joining Data. |
November 5, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight Mobile iOS update and a new Android app |
Get access to insights from your data on the fly. Download the updated iOS app or the new Android app. You can browse, favorite, and interact with your dashboards and explore your data with drilldowns and filters. You can stay ahead of the curve by using forecasting. You can get email alerts when unexpected changes happen in your data, and you can share those insights with colleagues. For more information, see Amazon QuickSight Mobile. |
November 5, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight supports printing |
Now you can print a dashboard or an analysis. For more information, see Printing. |
October 17, 2019 |
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Amazon QuickSight supports a new AWS Region |
Amazon QuickSight is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2). For more information, see AWS Regions, Websites, IP Address Ranges, and Endpoints. |
October 17, 2019 |
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Amazon QuickSight now supports visual-level formatting |
Now, any formatting you apply from the field wells is applied only to the selected visual. For more information, see Formatting a Visual. |
October 17, 2019 |
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Transpose tables |
In table visuals, you can now transpose columns and rows. For more information, see Tables. |
October 10, 2019 |
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Shared data sources |
Share data sources with other users and groups. For more information, see Shared Data Sources. |
October 10, 2019 |
|
SPICE enhancements |
SPICE dashboards now support new wildcard filters on dimensions. You can now filter
your
data using any of the available wildcard filters: 'contains', 'starts with',
'end with',
'equals'. Additionally, SPICE dashboards now support new string functions
( |
October 10, 2019 |
|
New publishing options for dashboards |
Control your user experience with more publishing options for your dashboards. These options include ability to toggle the filter pane, tooltips, drill up/down, and more. For more information, see Publish a Dashboard. |
October 10, 2019 |
|
New median function |
Amazon QuickSight supports median as a new aggregation. For more information, see
|
October 10, 2019 |
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New filter functionality |
Amazon QuickSight now supports additional relative date filter options. For more information, see Date Filters. |
October 10, 2019 |
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New aggregations for fields |
You can now use Nth percentile, median, standard deviation, and variance in field wells, filters, and ML Insights. For more information, see Field Aggregations. |
October 10, 2019 |
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Filter for context |
You can now filter text using the following wildcard comparison types: contains, does not contain, begins with, and ends with. For more information, see Text Filters. |
October 10, 2019 |
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Use the power operator (^) in SPICE |
Amazon QuickSight now supports using the power operator ( |
September 11, 2019 |
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Use string functions in SPICE |
Now you can use string functions for calculated fields in your analyses based on SPICE datasets. For more information, see Functions by Category. |
September 11, 2019 |
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Use level-aware aggregations to control your calculations |
Amazon QuickSight now supports level-aware aggregation calculations. Using this feature, you can perform aggregations at prefilter and preaggregation levels, before aggregations that happen in the display. This helps you explore more advanced query-building strategies than ever before. For more information, see Level-Aware Aggregations. |
September 11, 2019 |
|
Sort your anomalies |
Now you can choose how to sort anomalies on the insight widget and in the anomaly exploration page. Choosing how to prioritize anomalies can help you identify the anomalies that are the most important to you. For more information, see Using ML-Powered Anomaly Detection. |
September 11, 2019 |
|
Put 100 million rows into a SPICE dataset |
We changed the SPICE dataset limit from 25GB to 100 million rows for Enterprise edition (and 25 million rows for Standard edition). For more information, see SPICE Data Source Limits. |
September 11, 2019 |
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Rename your dashboard, keep your settings |
Amazon QuickSight now supports renaming your published dashboards in place. You can change the name and still keep your settings and subscribers. For more information, see Publishing a Dashboards. |
September 6, 2019 |
|
New visual type: Word clouds |
Amazon QuickSight supports word cloud visuals that are based on different aggregations over any dimension in your dataset. You can drill down, focus on specific data points, and apply specific colors to data points on the word cloud. For more information, see Word Clouds. |
September 5, 2019 |
|
Filter out the last N time periods |
Amazon QuickSight lets you exclude a specific number and type of time periods from a time range (after) filter. For more information, see Adding a Date Filter. |
September 5, 2019 |
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Amazon QuickSight new feature to mark favorites |
Mark your favorite dashboards and analyses so you can come back to them quickly. For more information, see Using the Amazon QuickSight Start Page. |
September 5, 2019 |
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Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition adds anomaly alerts |
Your readers can subscribe themselves to anomaly alerts on dashboards to get the latest ML-powered anomaly detection and contribution analysis by email. For more information, see Using Data Dashboards. |
September 5, 2019 |
|
Detect anomalies with less data |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, we lowered the required minimum data points to 15 for training anomaly detection. For more information, see Data Set Requirements for Using ML Insights with Amazon QuickSight. |
August 1, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight supports new AWS Regions |
Amazon QuickSight is available in Europe (London) and Europe (Frankfurt). Also, you can now connect to Active Directory in any AWS Region supported by Amazon QuickSight, except Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). For more information, see AWS Regions and IP Address Ranges. |
August 1, 2019 |
|
Amazon QuickSight adds custom colors for charts. |
With the Amazon QuickSight enhanced color picker, you can choose custom colors for charts where color customization is supported. The enhanced color picker also retains the eight most recently used custom colors for easy selection across multiple charts. For more information, see Changing Visual Colors. |
August 1, 2019 |
|
Embedding for Active Directory |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can now embed dashboards for users authenticated through Active Directory. For more information, see Embedding Dashboards. |
July 11, 2019 |
|
Granular access control for using AWS services from Amazon QuickSight |
In Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can scope down your security policies to allow specific people access to specific AWS resources. You can attach and detach IAM policies in the Amazon QuickSight interface, simplifying finer control over who can access your AWS data sources. For more information, see Controlling Access to AWS Resources. |
June 14, 2019 |
|
Tabs for dashboards and analyses |
Amazon QuickSight now supports multiple sheets inside of analyses and dashboards. You can add multiple tabs to your dashboards, utilize URL actions and on-screen controls to simplify navigation, and filter across all of your sheets. For more information, see Multiple Sheets. |
June 11, 2019 |
|
New functions |
Amazon QuickSight now supports functions Variance and Standard Deviations as both aggregation and table calculation. You can create Sample and Population variants for both the functions. You can create these calculations through the calculations editor in analysis mode. Functions by Category |
June 11, 2019 |
|
New Visual Types |
You can now use Amazon QuickSight to chart your data on a customizable gauge and donut charts. For more information, see Visual Types. |
June 11, 2019 |
|
Hide/Show columns in table visualizations |
In Amazon QuickSight, you can hide or show columns in visualizations that use the table visual type. For more information, see Customizing a Visual. |
June 11, 2019 |
|
Conditional String Functions on SPICE |
We added support for |
June 11, 2019 |
|
Choose period granularity for date differences |
We added an optional parameter to |
June 11, 2019 |
|
Duplicate visuals |
In Amazon QuickSight, you can now duplicate visuals. For more information, see Duplicating a Visual. |
May 21, 2019 |
|
Angled data labels |
In Amazon QuickSight, data labels that are too long are now angled by default on vertical bar, combo, and line charts. For more information, see Customizing Data Labels. |
May 21, 2019 |
|
New languages added |
Amazon QuickSight is now available in 10 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. For more information, see Choosing a Language in Amazon QuickSight. |
April 8, 2019 |
|
New aggregation function |
Amazon QuickSight supports aggregating by percentile. This function helps you understand
the
distribution of your data. For more information, see |
April 8, 2019 |
|
Customize how many data points to display |
You can now format your visuals to display a custom number of data points or groups before showing the "other" category. This feature is available for bar charts, combo charts, line charts, pie charts, heat maps, and tree maps. For more information, see Customizing a Visual. |
April 8, 2019 |
|
ML-powered forecasting |
With forecasting powered by machine learning and what-if analyses in Amazon QuickSight, nontechnical users can now easily forecast their key business metrics. No ML expertise or Microsoft Excel data modeling is required. The built-in ML algorithm in Amazon QuickSight is designed to handle complex real-world scenarios. Amazon QuickSight uses ML to provide more reliable forecasts than traditional means. For more information, see Forecasts and What-Ifs. |
March 14, 2019 |
|
ML-powered anomaly detection |
Amazon QuickSight uses proven Amazon technology to continuously run ML-powered anomaly detection on millions of metrics and billions of data points. This anomaly detection enables you to get deep insights that are often buried in the aggregates, not visible in plain sight, and not scalable with manual analysis. With ML-powered anomaly detection, there's no need for manual analysis, custom development, or ML domain expertise. For more information, see Anomaly Detection. |
March 14, 2019 |
|
Automatic narratives |
Automatic narratives provide key insights in everyday language, embedded contextually in your dashboard, saving hours on manual analysis. With automatic narratives, Amazon QuickSight interprets the charts and tables in your dashboard and provides a number of suggested insights in natural language. Depending on the shape and form of your data, you might get different suggestions. For example, you might see what the day-over-day changes look like, what was the highest sales date, or what the growth rate is. Or you might see what the forecast looks like for the next seven days. As the author of the dashboard, you can customize the computations and business language for your needs. You can use automatic narratives to effectively tell the story of your data in plain language. For more information, see Narrative Insights. |
March 14, 2019 |
Previous Updates
The following table describes the important changes in each release of the Amazon QuickSight User Guide before March 4, 2019.
| Change | Description | Date Changed |
|---|---|---|
| New features |
Using custom window functions, you can calculate any
aggregation for a defined window at the point of selection. You can
define the window interval before and after any point in time. You can
also do calculations for that window using the Send email reports with data tailored to each of your users and groups. You can now create email reports for datasets that use row-level security. Amazon QuickSight generates a custom email snapshot for each user or group based on their data permission that is defined in the dashboard. RLS for email reports works for both scheduled and ad hoc emails. For more information, see Sending Reports by Email. Amazon QuickSight now supports unbounded cardinality. That means you can have more than 10,000 values in your control or filter. For more information, see Using a Control with a Parameter in Amazon QuickSight. You can create a datetime parameter that has no static default value. Filters on these parameters become active after you choose a value. For more information, see Adding a Date Filter. |
March 4, 2019 |
| New features |
There are new table calculations available: |
February 7, 2019 |
| New features |
Amazon QuickSight supports emailing reports that use row-level security, using controls with unbounded cardinality, and creating datetime parameters with no default values. For more information, see the following: |
January 22, 2019 |
| New features |
We added conditional aggregations, including
Pivot tables now support infinite scrolling through millions of rows. You can add up to 20 fields for columns, and 20 fields for rows. Plus, you can add subtotals and totals to rows and columns. For more information, see the following: |
January 10, 2019 |
| New feature |
We enhanced the join editor to increase usability and functionality. You can now add tables from one or more schemas on the same data source, or add the same table twice. For more information, see Joining Data. |
January 3, 2019 |
| New SDK |
You can embed dashboards and manage users or groups by using the Amazon QuickSight SDKs. For more information, see Embedding and Other SDKs. |
November 27, 2018 |
| New features |
You can use groups with row-level security (RLS), and you can add cascading controls for parameters. For more information, see the following: |
November 20, 2018 |
| Function renamed |
We renamed the percentile function to make it more intuitive.
Its new name is |
November 12, 2018 |
| New features |
Use a top and bottom filter to show the top or bottom n for the field you choose, based on values in another field. For example, you could choose to show the top five sales people based on revenue. For more information, see Adding a Text Filter. Use cascading controls to limit the values displayed in the controls, so they only show values that are relevant to what is selected in other controls. For more information, see Setting Up Parameters in Amazon QuickSight. |
November 1, 2018 |
| New feature |
Use JSON native data types with |
October 30, 2018 |
| New features |
Use date functions to find out what quarter a date is in: Add parameters to URLs. For more information see, Using Parameters in a URL. |
September 10, 2018 |
| New features |
You can sort strings in SPICE datasets. For more information on these features, see Sorting Visual Data in Amazon QuickSight |
August 20, 2018 |
| New features |
You can schedule emailed reports, and add data labels to your visuals. For more information on these features, see the following sections: |
August 15, 2018 |
| New features |
You can create table calculations, using aggregated measures to discover how dimensions influence measures or each other. Also, you can visualize time data at granularities as low as one minute. For more information on these features, see the following sections: |
August 8, 2018 |
| New features |
You can replace datasets, customize labels, and format dimensions that are aggregated with count and count distinct. Also, new visuals start out smaller in size. For more information on these features, see the following sections: |
June 21, 2018 |
| New features and a new AWS Region |
You can upgrade your Amazon QuickSight subscription from Standard edition to Enterprise edition. In Enterprise edition, Amazon QuickSight supports usage-based pricing for users in the reader role, sharing dashboards with all users in the reader role, and hourly refresh of datasets. Amazon QuickSight also supports private connections to data in a VPC with a private subnet in Enterprise edition. In both editions, Amazon QuickSight supports parameters with on-sheet controls, dashboard co-ownership, custom URL actions, and 25-GB SPICE datasets. Also, Amazon QuickSight is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). For more information on these features, see the following sections:
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May 30, 2018 |
| New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports quick sorting from axis labels, duplicating datasets, and showing or hiding totals on tabular reports. Also, you can add custom SQL to a dataset earlier in the creation workflow. For more information on these features, see the following sections: |
May 25, 2018 |
| New features |
You can use Amazon QuickSight to connect to Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. For more information, see Software as a Service (SaaS) Data. You can import JSON files to Amazon QuickSight. For more information, see JSON Data. You can also parse JSON fields in a CSV file. For more information, see parseJson. |
April 9, 2018 |
| New feature |
You can use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon S3 files that are in a different AWS account. For more information, see Datasets Using S3 Files in Another AWS Account. |
November 20, 2017 |
| New visual types |
You can create visuals using maps. You can also view tabular data in a visual. For more information on preparing geospatial data for use in a visual, see Adding Geospatial Data. For more information on creating a geospatial visual, see Using Geospatial Charts (Maps). For more information on using tabular reports, see Using Tables as Visuals. |
November 20, 2017 |
| New features | Amazon QuickSight can support 1000 columns in a dataset. For more information, see Data Source Quotas. Calculated fields are supported in SPICE datasets. For more information, see Adding a Calculated Field to an Analysis. Also, high cardinality values, which often display as a long tail on a visual, are placed into a category called other. For more information, see Working with Visual Types in Amazon QuickSight. | November 20, 2017 |
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New feature |
In Enterprise edition, you can restrict access to a dataset by adding row-level security. To learn more, see Using Row-Level Security (RLS) to Restrict Access to a Dataset. |
October 20, 2017 |
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New visual type |
You can create visuals using combo charts. To learn more about combo charts, see Using Combo Charts. |
October 20, 2017 |
| New features | Amazon QuickSight supports creating custom aggregations for calculated fields in analyses, custom date formats, and copies of dashboards. For more information on aggregating calculated fields, see Using Aggregate Functions in Calculated Fields . For more information on using unsupported dates by creating a custom date format, see Using Unsupported or Custom Dates. For more information on duplicating dashboards, see Copying a Dashboard. | September 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
You can combine multiple filters using the And/Or operators. To learn more about filter groups, see Adding a Compound Filter with And/Or Operators. |
August 31, 2017 |
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New data source |
Amazon QuickSight supports Amazon S3 Analytics. |
August 31, 2017 |
| New Features | Amazon QuickSight supports importing ZIP files from Amazon S3. There is also a new search feature, to simplify finding analyses, datasets, and dashboards. For more information on the search feature, see Using the Amazon QuickSight Console. | August 31, 2017 |
| New AWS Regions | Amazon QuickSight is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). | August 8, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports Snowflake cloud data warehouse. |
July 31, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight added a new aggregation: Count Distinct. To learn more, see Changing Field Aggregation. |
July 19, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports exploring Amazon S3 analytics data from an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that you reach from the AWS Management Console. To learn more, see Exploring Your AWS Data in Amazon QuickSight. |
July 5, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) in Enterprise Edition. To learn more, see Using Identity Federation and Single Sign-on (SSO) with Amazon QuickSight. |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports Amazon Redshift Spectrum. To learn more, see Enabling Access to Amazon Redshift Spectrum . |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) in Standard Edition. To learn more, see Using Identity Federation and Single Sign-on (SSO) with Amazon QuickSight. |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports just-in-time (JIT) user provisioning through the
following policy actions: |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports direct connections to Teradata 14.0 and later. |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight added relative date filters for datasets and visuals. To learn more, see Adding a Date Filter. |
May 25, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports connecting to Apache Spark and Presto. To learn more, see Creating a Data Source Using Apache Spark and Creating a Data Source Using Presto. |
May 3, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight supports operational logging with AWS CloudTrail. To learn more, see Logging Operations with AWS CloudTrail. |
April 28, 2017 |
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New feature |
Amazon QuickSight is available in US East (Ohio). To learn more about AWS Regions, see AWS Regions, Websites, IP Address Ranges, and Endpoints. |
April 11, 2017 |
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New feature |
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April 6, 2017 |
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New feature |
You can now export to a comma-separated value (CSV) format file using Amazon QuickSight. To learn more, see Exporting Data. |
March 21, 2017 |
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New feature |
You can now schedule data refreshes for SPICE datasets. To learn more, see Refreshing Data. |
February 14, 2017 |
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New feature |
You can now connect to Amazon Athena databases and use them as data sources in Amazon QuickSight. To learn more, see Creating a Dataset Using Amazon Athena Data Creating a Dataset Using Amazon Athena Data. |
December 22, 2016 |
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New edition |
Amazon QuickSight now offers an Enterprise edition as well as a Standard edition. Both editions offer a full set of features for creating and sharing data visualizations, and Enterprise edition additionally offers encryption at rest and Active Directory integration. When you choose to use Enterprise edition, you select a Microsoft Active Directory directory in AWS Directory Service and use that active directory to identify and manage your Amazon QuickSight users and administrators. To learn more, see Different Editions of Amazon QuickSight. |
December 15, 2016 |
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New guide |
This is the first release of Amazon QuickSight User Guide. |
November 15, 2016 |
