QuickSight

• Data visualization service

• Data sources

  • Redshift
  • Aurora / RDS
  • Athena
  • EC2-hosted databases
  • Files (S3 or on-premises)
    • Excel
    • CSV, TSV
    • Common or extended log format
  • Data preparation allows limited ETL (ex: eliminate some column in excel file)

• SPICE

  • Data sets are imported into SPICE
    • Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine
    • Uses columnar storage, in-memory, machine code generation
    • Accelerates interactive queries on large datasets
  • Each user gets 10GB of SPICE
  • Highly available / durable
  • Scales to hundreds of thousands of users