# Overview


Quick Sight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are.

The *Amazon Quick Sight Developer Guide* provides usage examples of API operations for Amazon Quick Sight and procedural walkthroughs of common tasks. The guide also provides examples showing how to work with Quick Sight using AWS software development kits (SDKs). By using AWS SDKs, you can access Amazon Quick Sight from your preferred programming language. 

Currently, you can use the Amazon Quick Sight API to manage users and groups. In Enterprise Edition, you can also use the API to embed dashboards in your webpage or app. 

To monitor the calls made to the Amazon Quick Sight API for your account, use AWS CloudTrail. CloudTrail can monitor calls made by the AWS Management Console, command line tools, and other services. For more information, see the [AWS CloudTrail User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html).

Following, you can find out how to get started using the Amazon Quick Sight API:
+ [Terminology and concepts](terminology-and-concepts.md)
+ [Get started with the Amazon Quick Sight API](getting-started.md)
+ [Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in Quick Sight](arns.md)
+ [Operations](operations.md)

## Are you a first-time Amazon Quick Sight user?


If you are a first-time user of Amazon Quick Sight, we recommend that you begin by reading the following sections in the *Amazon Quick Suite User Guide*:
+ [How Amazon Quick Suite Works](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/how-quicksuite-works.html) 
+ [Getting Started with Quick Suite](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/getting-started.html)
+ [AWS Security in Quick Suite](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/security.html)