Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
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Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
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#2Does it support export yet? (.CSV etc.)
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#3This is really exciting. I've been wanting to this tool for quite a while, but because our headquarters are in Africa, we're pretty locked into the EU-West-1 DB.
This, on first look, definitely looks like it will be simple enough to have our operations team work directly. That's quite exciting!
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#4Great tool
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#5What are advantages over Google BigQuery? - if somebody is not bounded by existing Amazon products (EC2, databases etc.).
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#6For $9 per user per month, this seems like not a bad option. Does it have a TV mode for your KPIs, or is that a use case where you still need to use Ducksboard or whatever?
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#7Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app.
The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.
Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far playing with QuickSight I don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1].
It feels like an experiment vs. a new direction for the company
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/b/2649336011?ref_=gtw_nav...
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#8Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app. The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure. Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far play…
they already offer workmail, remote desktops etc at a similar model (some small dollar amount per month per user). I think this is probably aimed at people whose data is in AWS anyway, so they can get it into dashboards for marketing analysis easier.
if you want api-level analytics stuff and dashboards, have a look at amazon mobile analytics. it's an interesting alternative to google analytics that lets you control the session key (so it's easy to correlate events from front-end and back-end), and the event data is also yours (so it can easily be exported).
Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
#9Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app. The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure. Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far play…
AWS continues to invest in IaaS as well as PaaS. Investing in one doesn't mean it is sidelining the other.
PaaS is an important market, and it'd be suicidal for AWS to not leverage its IaaS offerings and build platforms on top. This is kind of what Google does with its apps on Android. They have a replacement for every popular app out there that isn't a game.
In this app economy, something like Google Firebase is going to be a huge player if isn't already and that's the segment you can't compete with if you don't have PaaS offerings.
With Google controlling the entirety of developer ecosystem on Android which is the most dominant phone OS by far via Google Play, it is paramount that AWS doesn't turn a blind eye to it.
In a way, GCP might well be the most widely used Cloud Platform out there by virtue of Google Play integrations in billions of Android Phones, we are choosing to ignore that fact at our own peril.
AWS packages itself as a great enterprise offering. But GCP cloud take over business that are mobile first (Snapchat, for instance), I'd say, if competitors like AWS stop innovating and building.
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#10This is really exciting. I've been wanting to this tool for quite a while, but because our headquarters are in Africa, we're pretty locked into the EU-West-1 DB. This, on first look, definitely looks like it will be simple enough to have our operations team work directly. That's quite exciting!
Where in Africa? I was setting up IaaS in Nairobi 2 years ago (couldn't get enough funding unfortunately). We should connect adam at varud.com