What's New in Amazon QuickSight
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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 2019 |
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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 2019 |
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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. For more information, see Aggregations in Calculated Fields and Table Calculations. June 2019 |
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New visual types You can now use Amazon QuickSight to chart your data on a customizable gauge chart or donut chart. For more information, see Working with Visual Types. June 2019 |
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Create dashboards with multiple sheets Amazon QuickSight now supports multiple sheets inside of analyses and dashboards. This allows you to build a comprehensive experience that is self-contained inside of a single dashboard. 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 2019 |
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Conditional string functions on SPICE We added support for June 2019 |
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Choose period granularity for date differences We added an optional parameter to June 2019 |
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Hide 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 2019 |
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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 2019 |
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Duplicate your visuals In Amazon QuickSight, you can now duplicate visuals in the same sheet, or onto a different sheet. For more information, see Duplicating a Visual. May 2019 |
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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 2019 |
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Percentile aggregation Amazon QuickSight supports aggregating by percentile. The April 2019 |
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Custom number of data points 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 the Number of Data Points to Display. April 2019 |
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ML-powered Anomaly Detection Amazon QuickSight uses proven Amazon technology to continuously run anomaly detection powered by machine learning 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 anomaly detection powered by machine learning (ML), there's no need for manual analysis, custom development, or ML domain expertise. For more information, see ML-Powered Anomaly Detection. March 2019 |
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ML-powered Forecasting With forecasting and what-if scenarios powered by machine learning, 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 ML-powered Forecasts and What-Ifs. March 2019 |
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Auto-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 suggestions such as what the day-over-day changes look like, what was the highest sales date, what the growth rate is at, and 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 Auto-narrative Insights. March 2019 |
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Custom window functions Using custom window functions, you can calculate any aggregation for a defined window at the point your choose. You can define the window offsets you need. For more information, see Table Calculations. March 2019 |
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RLS support for email reports You can now create email reports with data tailored to each of your users and groups, for data sets that use row-level security. Amazon QuickSight generates a custom email snapshot for each user or group based on the data permissions that are defined in the dashboard. Row-level security (RLS) for email reports works for both scheduled and ad hoc (one-time) emails. For more information, see Sending Reports. March 2019 |
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High cardinality filters 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 Parameter Controls. March 2019 |
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New table calculations You can now create calculated fields with February 2019 |
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Conditional aggregations You can now create calculated fields to perform January 2019 |
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Join editor enhancements 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 Tables. January 2019 |
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Pivot table enhancements 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 Pivot Tables. January 2019 |
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Join editor enhancements, cross schema data sources, and self joins 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 Tables. January 2019 |
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New API for embedding Amazon QuickSight dashboards You can embed dashboards and manage users or groups by using the Amazon QuickSight SDKs. For more information, see Embedding and Other SDKs. November 2018 |
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New API operations for user and group management Manage users or groups by using the Amazon QuickSight SDKs or by using the AWS CLI. For more information, see List of Actions by Function. November 2018 |
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RLS group support and cascading controls You can use groups with row-level security (RLS), and you can add cascading controls for parameters. For more information, see Row Level Security. November 2018 |
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Top and bottom filters 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. November 2018 |
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Support for parseJSON data type in source tables Use JSON native data types with parseJson. For more information, see October 2018 |
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Date functions and URL parameters Use date functions to find out what quarter a date is in: You can also add parameters to URLs. For more information, see Using Parameters in a URL. September 2018 |
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SPICE sorting You can sort strings in SPICE data sets. For more information on these features, see Sorting Visual Data in Amazon QuickSight August 2018 |
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Scheduled email reports You can schedule emailed reports, and add data labels to your visuals. For more information on these features, see the following: August 2018 |
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Table calculations and time data granularity 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: August 2018 |
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Customize labels, format counts, replace data sets, and new smaller visuals You can replace data sets, 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: June 2018 |
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New reader role and usage-based pricing, plus ability to upgrade subscriptions, and a new 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 data sets. Also, Amazon QuickSight is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). For more information on these features, see the following: May 2018 |
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New reader role and usage-based pricing, upgrade subscriptions, private connections with VPC, and more Amazon QuickSight 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 data sets. For more information on these features, see the following: May 2018 |
