What is Amazon Quick?
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Amazon QuickSight has been rebranded to Amazon Quick, expanding from a standalone business intelligence service to a comprehensive analytics and AI platform. QuickSight continues as Amazon Quick Sight, a core component within the Quick ecosystem. Amazon Quick Sight retains existing functionality including interactive data visualization, SPICE in-memory analytics, embedded analytics, and dashboard sharing. All existing QuickSight APIs, SDKs, and integrations continue to work without changes.
Amazon Quick is a comprehensive, generative AI-powered business intelligence platform that makes it easy to analyze data, create visualizations, automate workflows, and collaborate across your organization. The service combines traditional business intelligence capabilities with modern AI assistance, requiring no machine learning expertise to use. You can connect to diverse data sources, create interactive dashboards, build intelligent automations, and get immediate insights through natural language conversations with AI agents.
Quick includes five integrated capabilities that work together: Amazon Quick Sight for data visualization, Amazon Quick Flows for workflow automation, Amazon Quick Automate for process optimization, Amazon Quick Index for data discovery, and Amazon Quick Research for comprehensive analysis. The platform extends beyond traditional BI by bringing AI assistance directly into your existing tools through extensions for browsers, Slack, and Microsoft Office applications.
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Benefits of Quick
Some of the benefits of Quick include:
- AI-powered analysis and visualization
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Quick analyzes natural language queries across enterprise content and creates interactive dashboards from multiple data sources. You can combine diverse data types including AWS data, third-party data, big data, spreadsheets, SaaS data, and B2B data within a unified analytical environment. Custom AI agents provide domain-specific expertise and automate analytical tasks through conversational interfaces.
- Simple to deploy and manage
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Quick provides all machine learning infrastructure, models, and pre-built connectors with SPICE in-memory engine for analytics. As a fully managed service, it requires no infrastructure deployment or management, allowing you to focus on gaining insights from your data.
- Enterprise-grade security and governance
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Quick supports comprehensive security through granular permissions and row-level security controls. You can access the system through federation and single sign-on capabilities. All data is protected with secure encryption at rest and in transit. The platform integrates with IAM Identity Center while ensuring all responses and visualizations respect your permissions.
- Collaboration and workflow automation
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Quick enables seamless sharing of dashboards and insights across your organization. You can create embedded analytics for applications and websites, configure AI responses using enterprise data sources, and automate routine tasks to streamline workflows. Data and resources can be organized into dedicated project spaces for efficient knowledge sharing and task completion.
Pricing and availability
Quick charges you both for user subscriptions, and for data capacity. For
information about what's included in the tiers of user subscriptions and index capacity,
see Quick
pricing
For a list of regions where Quick is currently available, see Quick endpoints and quotas and AWS Regions, websites, IP address ranges, and endpoints.
Accessing Quick
You can access Quick in the following ways in the AWS Regions that it's available in:
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AWS Management Console
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You can use the AWS Management Console—a browser-based interface to interact with AWS services—to access the Quick console and resources. You can perform most Quick tasks using the Quick console.
- Amazon Quick API
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To access Amazon Quick Sight and some Quick programmatically, you can use the Amazon Q API. For more information, see the Quick Sight API Reference.
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AWS Command Line Interface
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The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is an open source tool. You can use the AWS CLI to interact with AWS services using commands in your command line shell. If you want to build task-based scripts, using the command line can be faster and more convenient than using the console.
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SDKs
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AWS SDKs provide language APIs for AWS services to use programmatically.
Related services
The following are some of the other AWS services that Quick integrates with:
- Amazon Q Business
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Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your enterprise data. If you're already an Amazon Q Business user, you can connect your Amazon Q Business application to Quick.
Quick user types
There are three user personas that Quick supports—readers, authors, and
admins. Each persona has both standard and Pro subscription types, with Pro
subscriptions providing access to advanced Amazon Quick tools. For detailed information
about subscription types and pricing, see Quick pricing
- Readers
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You can use Quick to access company data and find answers through chat interactions with AI agents. You can upload files, run automations, create visualizations, and share spaces via direct links. While you cannot create datasets or agents as a reader, you are the primary consumer of prepared analytics and AI chat tools.
- Authors
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As a domain expert, you can build and manage Quick resources. In addition to reader capabilities, you can create datasets, dashboards, automations, and agents. You have expanded sharing permissions for spaces and can use AI to create visualizations, enabling you to build the data infrastructure that supports readers.
- Administrators
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You can oversee the Quick system by managing user access, monitoring costs, and maintaining data sources. You have full reader and author capabilities but focus primarily on system administration to ensure efficient and secure operations for all users.
Are you a first-time Quick user?
If you're a first-time admin user of Quick, we recommend that you read the following sections in order:
- How it works
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Introduces Quick components and describes how they work.
- Key concepts
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Explains key concepts and important Quick terminology.
- Setting up
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Outlines how to set up Quick so that you can begin using it.
