Get started with Generative BI

To get started with Quick Sight Generative BI capabilities, upgrade your account's users to Admin Pro, Author Pro, or Reader Pro roles. Pro roles grant users access to all Generative BI capabilities that are relevant to the role that's assigned to the user. Pro users can share generative Q&A topics with anoTo understand which Generative BI capabilities are available to the different user roles in Quick Suite, see the table below. To understand how subscription names map to user roles, see Understanding Amazon Quick Suite subscriptions and roles.

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Non-Pro Authors and Readers can still access Generative Q&A topics if an Author Pro or Admin Pro user shares the topic with them. Non-Pro Authors and Readers can also access data stories if a Reader Pro, Author Pro, or Admin Pro shares one with them.

Feature name	Feature description	Reader	Author	Admin	Reader Pro	Author Pro	Admin Pro
Creating a data story with Generative BI;	Build data stories that explain your data with visuals, insights, and ideas to help improve your business.	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Viewing a generated data story in Amazon Quick Sight	View narrative data stories that are shared with you.	Yes*	Yes*	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes
Authoring Q&A	Create and refine topics that utilize Generative Q&A for Quick Sight dashboards.	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Asking and answering questions of data with Generative BI	Ask questions about data to accelerate data driven decisions with multi-visual answers.	Yes*	Yes*	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes
Creating executive summaries	Get an executive summary of key insights from a Quick Sight dashboard.	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Generative BI authoring experience	Create an analysis to build visuals, calculations, and refine existing visuals with natural language.	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

*Non-pro roles in accounts that were created on or after April 30, 2024 can access Q&A topics that are shared with them. If your Quick Suite account was created before April 30, 2024 and you want to opt-in to this new feature, contct your AWS account team.

Any Quick Suite administrator can upgrade a user to a Pro role with the following procedure.

To upgrade a user to a Pro role

1. Open the Quick Suite console.

2. Choose the user icon at the top right, and then choose Manage Quick Suite.

3. Choose Manage users to open the Manage Users page.

4. To change the role of an existing user, locate that user on the Manage Users table and choose the role that you want to grant them from the Role dropdown.

For more information about managing Quick Suite users, see Managing user access inside Amazon Quick Suite.