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Optimize your Amazon QuickSight implementation: a guide to usage analytics and cost management

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This article provides a comprehensive guide to optimizing Amazon QuickSight usage and cost management through an automated solution that helps organizations gain insights into their BI implementation.

  • Developed a CloudFormation-based solution to extract and analyze QuickSight user information
  • Utilizes AWS Glue, Athena, and S3 to collect and process QuickSight usage data
  • Creates a multi-sheet dashboard providing insights into: - Reader session capacity usage - Feature-specific usage (SPICE, Alerts, Q, Reporting) - User types and activity - Inactive user identification
  • Enables organizations to: - Track reader engagement - Identify underutilized accounts - Optimize QuickSight implementation costs

The solution helps organizations gain visibility into their QuickSight usage patterns and make data-driven decisions about their business intelligence investments.



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