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Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by 0xmohit »

ernestbro wrote: post #7

Strange 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…

It's possibly targeted at those who have never made use of analytics, but might think of it if it comes with minimal effort (and price).

AWS generally tends to complement its offerings such that they can avoid most of existing users of one or more services from looking at other alternates.

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Post by Techbrunch »

ernestbro wrote: post #7

Strange 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…

I think it makes sense, I was quite reluctant to use another service to do this kind of analysis where you might need to give complete access to your DB. If you are already using aws to host your database then it stays within the Amazon realm.

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Post by estsauver »

AdamN wrote: post #10
estsauver wrote: post #3

This 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

Nairobi funnily enough. The best hosting provider I've found so far has been truehost.co.ke. Many places claim to be in Kenya then are actually just reselling hosting in Europe.

My info's in my profile, I always love to meet tech folk working in Nairobi.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by estsauver »

wslh wrote: post #17

Is this a direct response to Google Data Studio [1] ? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415

This has been in beta for quite a while I believe. I don't know if Google Data Studio has been around for longer, but I remember looking at Quicksight at a previous employer in 2013.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by ernestbro »

adzicg wrote: post #8
ernestbro wrote: post #7

Strange 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 t…

Didn't know about workmail! I suppose that's closer to an infrastructure product vs an app like analytics. Isn't a mail server just an API for mail clients to connect to?
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