Understanding Amazon QuickSight’s core concepts

At its core, QuickSight lets us ingest data from a wide variety of sources, perform some filtering or other transformation tasks on the data, and then create dashboards with multiple types of visuals that can be easily shared with others, or highly formatted multi-page PDF reports.

The QuickSight service is fully managed by AWS, and there are no upfront costs for using the service. Instead, the service uses a pricing model of a monthly cost per user and offers both Standard and Enterprise editions. To include specific functionality, such as QuickSight Q (for making natural language queries of data), a higher price per user is charged. There is also an option for capacity pricing, where you pay for the number of sessions per month, or per year, instead of per user.

QuickSight also includes a powerful in-memory storage and computation engine to enable the best performance for working with a variety of data sources. In...