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Anyone looking for self-hosted data exploration platform (only SQL), Airbnb's Superset[0] (previously Caravel) is good alternative. [0]: https://github.com/airbnb/superset
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…
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 goi…
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…
Step 1: develop a Trojan horse to gather growth and profitability data (QuickSight).
Step 2: roll out home-grown apps to compete with their most profitable AWS customers.
This is exactly how Amazon.com operates[1].
I can only imagine how the conversation went:
Bob: We need to diversify!
Earl: You're right! Let's do some research.
Susan: That'll cost a ton...
Ed: Eureka! We'll just let everyone give us their data.
It'll be a quick sight into all the markets!
Becky: Ed... You're a genius!
Ed: I am?
Becky: Yes. We'll call it QuickSight!
So it begins. How sticky are customers in this space to existing solutions?
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'm not familiar enough with all those alternatives you cited to make a feature-by-feature comparison but one key difference is those other tools all use AMI (vm images). The Amazon QuickSight doesn't seem to need a deployment and management of any AMI. The customer just uploads a csv or Excel or points at a data source like Salesforce and instantly starts slicing & dicing the data. QuickSight seems to be positioned similar to Google's Data Studio offering.
>The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.
That seems inevitable. Amazon AWS proved that IaaS being higher up the value chain than bare-metal services was more profitable. Rackspace's decline was proof of that. To continue the climb up the value chain, everybody including Google Cloud and MS Azure is offering higher valued-added services. Even a company like Github couldn't survive purely on on hosted Git disk space. (A "dumb" data pipe and disk space to a shared git repo.) They are moving up the value chain to build out full life-cycle project management to compete with MS Visual Team in the cloud.
Is this a direct response to Google Data Studio [1] ? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415
The Google Data Studio is only for dashboards (i.e. static visualizations) these other tools offers standard BI operations like rollup, drillup, pivoting and etc.