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Amazon QuickSight pros and cons

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

3.6 out of 5

34 reviews
68% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Amazon QuickSight offers seamless integration with different data sources in the AWS ecosystem, providing cost-effectiveness compared to Qlik Sense and Tableau. It efficiently handles large datasets and enables quick dashboard creation. However, limitations in visualization features and dynamic refresh rate, along with insufficient integration with Python or R, hinder its capability for advanced analytics. Additionally, it requires improvements in data cleaning, computational functionalities, and connectivity for production-ready dashboards.

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PROS

Amazon QuickSight offers seamless integration with different data sources, especially beneficial when connected within the AWS ecosystem.

It is cost-effective, providing affordability compared to competitors like Qlik Sense, Power BI, and Tableau.

The tool provides efficient handling of large datasets with speed, enhancing data analysis processes.

Amazon QuickSight enables easy provisioning, creation, and publication of dashboards, enhancing the speed and efficiency of developing analytics.

It features interactive dashboards with intuitive functionalities that support data analysis and strategic decision-making.

CONS

Amazon QuickSight requires better integration with Python or R for enhanced data operations.

The current visualization and dashboard features are limited compared to competitors like Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire.

QuickSight lacks robust data cleaning and computational functionalities within the tool, necessitating external processes.

The dynamic refresh rate is insufficient for dashboards that need frequent updates, with a minimum refresh interval of one hour.

The feature set is minimal, causing challenges for creating production-ready dashboards and requiring improvements in storage and connectivity.

Amazon QuickSight Pros review quotes

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Samuel Ndip Takou

IT Infrastructure Support Specialist at Olam Agri

Aug 14, 2025

Amazon QuickSight has an interactive dashboard that is beautiful and user-friendly, with beautiful colors and good icons that are easy to identify, allowing users to click, drag and drop, and extract data without facing complexity or a terminal-based interface.

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Freelancer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 26, 2025

Amazon QuickSight is a data visualization tool that is a major component in business intelligence to extract insights from the data warehouse, enabling senior managers to have a clear vision about the data, clients, and organization to make major business decisions or strategic decisions about improving the business.

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Nandakumar-Thiruthath

General Manager Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 5, 2026

Interactive dashboards do help with data analysis.

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reviewer2625966

Senior Solutions Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 3, 2025

Efficiency has definitely improved, and the speed of developing analytics and insights has increased by at least twenty percent.

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AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Dec 20, 2024

The best part about Amazon QuickSight is the filtration capability.

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Abhishek Malviya

Lead Software Engineer at Zenoti

Nov 26, 2024

QuickSight makes it easy to provision, create, and publish dashboards.

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PapuBhattacharya

Owner at Promode Negro

Oct 15, 2024

It works well with the AWS ecosystem.

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Senior Manager - Architecture and engineering excellence at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Apr 1, 2024

The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.

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Nerissa Serrano

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst at ClearSource Bpo

Oct 20, 2023

It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis.

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Venkata Maniteja Alapati

Senior Director of Product Management at Sprinklr

Apr 4, 2024

Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports.

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Amazon QuickSight Cons review quotes

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Samuel Ndip Takou

IT Infrastructure Support Specialist at Olam Agri

Aug 14, 2025

AWS services greatly benefit well-established companies, while startups struggle with costs as they transition data out of AWS.

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Freelancer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 26, 2025

Amazon QuickSight could be improved by embedding AI features. For example, making automation for filling missing data or reformatting incorrect data formats, and making date corrections.

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Nandakumar-Thiruthath

General Manager Information Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 5, 2026

I don't want to say very positive at the moment about the pricing of Amazon QuickSight because my initial understanding is that it's not an easy one to adapt, but the choices are there.

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reviewer2625966

Senior Solutions Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 3, 2025

The setup process falls somewhere in the middle. It is not straightforward, nor is it complex, but there is a significant amount of work needed on the back end to make it function.

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AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Dec 20, 2024

One area for improvement is the cost, as it's a bit expensive.

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Abhishek Malviya

Lead Software Engineer at Zenoti

Nov 26, 2024

QuickSight needs to add more visuals similar to what Power BI offers.

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PapuBhattacharya

Owner at Promode Negro

Oct 15, 2024

The cost of queries is very high.

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Senior Manager - Architecture and engineering excellence at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Apr 1, 2024

Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking.

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Nerissa Serrano

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst at ClearSource Bpo

Oct 20, 2023

One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards.

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Venkata Maniteja Alapati

Senior Director of Product Management at Sprinklr

Apr 4, 2024

One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly.

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