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Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by bebop »

retr0grad3 wrote: post #32

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space as well as traditional BI companies like Tableau. QuickSight is going to be leveraged for more than just data analysis. They'll (probably) be using this for cost exploring and other…

I agree, I just tried to use an RDS instance that is within a VPC and is only available there. I am not able to use this RDS instance, unless I make it public, which I am not overly willing to do.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by neuronexmachina »

retr0grad3 wrote: post #32

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space as well as traditional BI companies like Tableau. QuickSight is going to be leveraged for more than just data analysis. They'll (probably) be using this for cost exploring and other…

> you have to whitelist the QuickSight IP range.

How did you find QuickSight's IP range? I saw it referenced in the FAQ, but couldn't find the actual IP itself anywhere.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by ernestbro »

mthoms wrote: post #45

Does anyone know of an affordable white-label version of something similar? The idea: Re-sell pre-built dashboards and reports for specific niches. Of course, you can roll your own using various javascript graphing libraries but it would be nice if everything was taken care of and one could just build the various reports and visualizations.

There's an O'Reilly book titled "Embedding Analytics into Modern Applications" that helps with white label options https://www.jaspersoft.com/resource/free-oreilly-book-embedd...

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by willglynn »

neuronexmachina wrote: post #53
retr0grad3 wrote: post #32

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space as well as traditional BI companies like Tableau. QuickSight is going to be leveraged for more than just data analysis. They'll (probably) be using this for cost exploring and other…

> you have to whitelist the QuickSight IP range. How did you find QuickSight's IP range? I saw it referenced in the FAQ, but couldn't find the actual IP itself anywhere.

It's buried in the QuickSight documentation, which doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere in the QuickSight product pages:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/configure-...

I opened a support ticket last night after being unable to find this exact piece of information. If only there were a way to make a web page reference some other web page...

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by rogerthis »

kevinconroy wrote: post #43
mangeletti wrote: post #26

Amazon will likely begin competing with many of their AWS customers. 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…

This is irresponsible conjecture. AWS has very strict privacy and data safe guards in place. There are a number of laws (particularly in the EU) that forbid such practices. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/ The reason AWS is successful is because Amazon takes privacy and security seriously. Why does Netflix trust AWS when there's Prime Video? Because Netflix knows that they have legal recourse again…

Sincere question: how are such clauses enforced?

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by candiodari »

mbesto wrote: post #42
mangeletti wrote: post #26

Amazon will likely begin competing with many of their AWS customers. 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…

Curious - what stops an Apple employee working on the App Store from personally investing in an early stage startup that has seen tremendous growth on the App Store? Or similarly from insights on traffic from a Google team member? AFAIK, there is nothing legally that precludes you from doing so...

They sign a contract stating they won't do it when joining Apple.

Needless to say that doesn't work, especially given the number of enforcement officials at the SEC and the capacity there, and the fact that Apple would have to sue it's own employees (plus the fact that you wouldn't want them to be heavy-handed at all).

So SOX means that very few employees can have access to such data. The more enterprising amongst them still do of course - as do the ones that you really don't want to have access to it. The ones that would both "need" the data (not really), and would know exactly how to profit from it - general and financial management.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by candiodari »

jasode wrote: post #28
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 don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1]. 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…

There's also that they seriously undercut the marketplace solutions in price. As said before - this is typical for Amazon.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by dgudkov »

retr0grad3 wrote: post #32

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space as well as traditional BI companies like Tableau. QuickSight is going to be leveraged for more than just data analysis. They'll (probably) be using this for cost exploring and other…

>traditional BI companies like Tableau

Oh gods, this day has come -- Tableau is now a traditional BI company. I remember the days when traditional BI meant BusinessObjects, Cognos or Crystal Reports.

Re: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available

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Post by Artemis2 »

ishfuseini wrote: post #49
mthoms wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Answered my own question by Googling "white label analytics". Of note (in case anyone is interested) was this open source project which appears to be a complete solution: https://github.com/piwik/piwik

Metabase may also be an option - http://www.metabase.com/

I love Metabase!
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