Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK

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AWS Labs has a lot of open source code up on GitHub. The code in this repo lets your embed Amazon QuickSight dashboards in your HTML.

I’m a big fan of Amazon QuickSight. I think it solves a lot of business problems quickly and easily for customers. The service’s biggest weakness is that no one really knows about it or it’s functionality.

This repo, Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK, lets you embed QuickSight dashboards in your HTML. I think that goes a long way to help make the insights this service can generate a lot more accessible.

I call out a few more details in the Twitter thread below…

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next up in my walk through @awscloud Labs repos of note: the Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK

it’s up at https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-quicksight-embedding-sdk#example

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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you can view this thread unrolled at https://t.co/zjVFFiSwmP

the previous thread on AWS WAF Security Automations is at https://markn.ca/2021/aws-waf-security-automations/

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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Amazon QuickSight is one of my favourite services. it was also one of the first, if not the first to be hosted at the .aws TLD (fun fact-ish!)

https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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this service is billed as “scalable, serverless, embeddable, ML-powered BI service for the cloud”, which is a little to marketing-y for my tastes but is a reasonable description

basically point it at your data and you can click to view/explore your data…

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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…while it stays (ideally) in your @awscloud S3 buckets. it’s a super low effort, low cost analytical engine for your data

more on pricing at https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/pricing/

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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ok, back to the project at hand, this one (AGAIN, come on @awscloud) fills in a product gap.

in this case, embedding your QuickSight dashboards in HTML…somewhere

you can embed;

dashboards
authoring portals
the Q search bar (natural language)

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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that’s super powerful, and this project make it easy-ish to do.

as long as you following the steps closely, you’ll get things up and running. it’s a reasonably smooth ux but could be slicker in product (think YouTube’s “embed” option)

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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simple and to the point, if you want to embed Amazon QuickSight in HTML somewhere, start here

it’ll save you a ton of headache

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marknca @marknca tweeted at 17-Nov-2021, 13:03

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