# Page 2 | Amazon QuickSight Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Amazon QuickSight the right Business Intelligence solution for you? Explore 51 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/169810/Quicksight/reviews --- Amazon QuickSight 4.3 (51) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/169810/Quicksight/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Amazon QuickSight ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 51 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Joe H. Senior Vice President Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Awesome system once you've learned some basics" August 10, 2021 5.0 Overall, my experience with Amazon Quicksight has been amazing. I wasn't the person responsible for the initial integration/implementation within our software ecosystem, but I am one of the primary dashboard creators on our team and I'm definitely not a developer. As a semi-technical user I've found that the platform is very robust and has tons of features that make Business Intelligence reporting easy to do. Although I still haven't gotten the hang of ALL the advance features, I do feel like I'm slowly catching on to them and am probably in the 80th percentile of users. Now that I've had this tool, I definitely couldn't live without it. Pros Ease of use with the reporting mechanisms is second to none. The ability to incorporate Amazon insights (AI) is amazing. I've also noticed that they release tons of new features constantly. Dashboards look really good as well. Cons Pretty difficult to configure initially. If you're looking to leverage all the tools within your current system, then you'll really want to have someone certified in AWS or at least a team of devs with advanced skills. We actually reconfigured our implementation within our software after about 6 months of use and it made our lives much better. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Technical Lead - Data Analytics Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Quick set up, simple embedding, backed by the power of AWS" May 24, 2022 5.0 Overall, our team has been very please with what we get with Amazon QuickSight. The support team and our account reps have assisted us every step of the way. Their unique (from our previous solution) pricing structure took a bit of time to quote out, but once the math was done it was clear which solution was best. While we didn't keep as many dashboard author seats as first expected, the time and workload associated with onboarding and implementing was not something that overly taxed our engineers or analysts. Pros The pricing structure alone got us interested, but the ease of setup and the user experience kept our attention. On the data-prep side, linking our RDS and Aurora instances was as simple as a login prompt. Mapping and prepping data was just as simple too. The process of building out our first interactive dashboards and then embedding them for our users occurred in 1/4 of the time as our previous BI solution. Cons We still find a desktop SQL client the easiest route for the initial dataset queries. The editor in QuickSight is very beginner-friendly though. Someone with more time writing queries will likely only copy/paste into the editor, however. Alternatives considered [Yurbi](https://www.capterra.com/p/87169/Yurbi/)[Looker](https://www.capterra.com/p/169053/Looker/)[Jaspersoft](https://www.capterra.com/p/170203/Jaspersoft/)[Sisense](https://www.capterra.com/p/86955/Sisense/) Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight The pricing structure was the biggest influence on our decision. However, we did not have to sacrifice our other needs or requirements just to hit the budget. Switched from [Sisense](https://www.capterra.com/p/86955/Sisense/) Poor support, high pricing, and quality of visuals. Review Source David W. Head of Engineering Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Easily deployed, not so easily used and not fully integrated" April 20, 2022 3.0 Ultimately, I'm not enamoured with QuickSight at all. Yes, it is an easy-to-use, highly accessible, AWS-compatible BI product but it feels half-baked with the rest of AWS, and it has some curious approaches, some complexities that are unintuitive, and some other things that make it just that bit more frustrating than it needs to be. Pros QuickSight is simple to set up - it's a public cloud AWS service so if you're already using AWS it's already there and you merely sign in to your AWS console and navigate over. It's also easy to set up your first visuals; you create a data source, create an analysis, and away you go. It helps you make interesting and effective visuals too, giving recommendations based on the nature of the data too. So, the barrier to entry for QuickSight and to start using it is extremely low. There's nothing to it. Cons It's clear QuickSight is a product AWS acquired rather than natively developed because so many things are different or inconsistent with the usual AWS standards - menus, security groups, user accounts, etc. Some things you could only do via the AWS CLI. As an example, until only just recently, QuickSight had no GUI support for groups. We could make groups via the CLI, and then assign data sources and analysis to the group, but it was not available or visible in the GUI in any way. Thankfully, this feature has been added during March or April 2022. Another issue is that QuickSight sometimes doesn't work as you expect. We encountered issues with pivot tables whereby we got different results when pivoting/grouping on a specific column than when we exported the exact same data into Excel and pivoted there. We manually compared each individual row and confirmed we were looking at the exact same data. The Excel pivot was correct, while our QuickSight pivot was doing some averaging. We logged this with AWS support for help and while it was resolved the issue is that some things that ought to be simple and intuitive become a bit more complex in QuickSight. Also, QuickSight can store results for quicker access in storage it calls SPICE, and you buy SPICE quota. However, if you run out of SPICE it won't run your scheduled reports and they simply fail. Switched from [Tableau](https://www.capterra.com/p/208764/Tableau/) We switched from Tableau and Logi Info Self Service (one of the products in the Logi Analytics suite) with the goal of having a single, easy, customer self-service platform. However, our experience with QuickSight led us back to Logi Analytics and Logi Composer instead. Review Source DB Daniele B. Program Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for visualizing data." July 28, 2023 4.0 Pros What I like the most about Quicksight is ease of use - even if you're not a BI, it's fairly simple to create dashboards and real-time updates for visualizing data. Learning curve to actively creating these is way faster than similar tools on the market. If you have more developed knowledge - no worries, integration with AWS services can keep you busy to create something a bit more comprehensive. Being part of AWS galaxy, it's quite 'plug and play' if you already use other AWS services. Cons Could do with some improvement on filtering (as each tab is handled separately, you can't 'filter all' on your reports to slice data on different reports). Also borrowing some more customization and pivoting option as other actors in the market do (see extreme flexibility from end-customer side that Looker has) would be a massive leg up, as current system is a bit 'rigid' as a end user - ie., very little opportunity to customize. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the cheapest & superfast Analytics tool" September 24, 2022 5.0 It is amazing requires let management Pros 1\. Easy to setup and use 2. Fastest due to spice engine 3. Cheapest as compared to tableau powerbi Cons The first disadvantage is there are minimum number of charts some are still not available Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight Cheapest Review Source GT Gabriel T. Data Scientist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Embedding Option among Hyperscalers" October 10, 2023 4.0 We used quicksight to display insights from over 300 million points of data from IoT devices. Overall, it does perform really well with creating attractive dashboards. You are limited with options in terms of visualizations compared to other solutions, however, it does have some out of the box ML options. I wish there was an option to display real time data, but you can only refresh and consume data every 30 minutes which in some cases can be a little late to display info. Value for money is definitely the highest but there is plenty of room for improvement. Pros I liked how easy it was to embed the dashboard into an app and web. It was literally a plug and play feature with different customization options. Cons Customer support needs to improve significantly. When I posted a question, it took them weeks to get back and the response can easily get lost. The community based support didn't work for me and the criticality sometimes can be high, so an immediate response is needed. Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight It was the cheapest option for embedded analytics compared to other main solutions by a clear mile. Pricing was also super transparent. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Data Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "BI solutions to build business reports !" March 16, 2023 4.0 AWS solution for BI reporting ! Pros The best cloud based BI solution provided by AWS to build analytical reports . The power of the cloud infrastructure can be utilized to build report with huge volume of data . Cons Since its a cloud based solution connecting to any databases located on prem is bit of a difficult job. Review Source RB Ricardo B. Head of AI Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My experience using Amazon Quicksight" February 10, 2023 2.0 Not good. We use this to implement a product on top of that and to analyse data, however the bottom line is that it is worst than Power BI, Qlikview and Tableau, all tools that I used before. Pros The drag and drop functionality is easy, however it's not easier than other BI products that I used before. Cons The graphical resources are limited, poor integration (even with Amazon), difficulty to create intelligent reports, the data is not integrated in a fluid way (if you filter in one page, the filter is not applied to other pages), there are few guides and good learning documents to understand how the product works. Switched from [Tableau](https://www.capterra.com/p/208764/Tableau/)[Microsoft Power BI](https://www.capterra.com/p/176586/Power-BI/) All our that is stored in Amazon Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Scientist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great visualizations" February 7, 2019 4.0 I want to build Dashboards so I can help companies visualize how their campaigns are running. If there is a keyword/hashtag, they need to analyze, we can easily view it on the screen. I was able to build a dashboard easily and view real-time changes as well as the sentiment analysis. This proved to be of great use to me. Pros I liked the fact that the visualizations were easy to create. Typically, I used to prefer using Elasticsearch and Kibana for my visuals. This one did not require much tinkering or knowing a great deal of code to set it up. There were many choices in graphs, charts, etc especially when it came to setting up a dashboard. The trial service was not restrictive either and it allowed me to explore the many choices. I loved that it has support for other services such as Salesforce, Tableau etc to import data. The sharing feature makes it fun for everyoneto view the dashboards within an organization. Cons There is a lack of tutorials on how one can use it more effectively. There weren't many choices when it comes to charts, graphs. I also hated having to sign up for it separately as it's not a third party service and is part of Amazon. They should just make it easy for one to use this service without having to sign up for it again. Another issue is that there is no way for an outsider such as a client to view the visualisations as they have to be part of a team to view it. I wanted to share my dashboard with a client but it was not possible to share the link. Maybe I must have missed it but there was no simple way to do it. Review Source AA Aditya A. BIE Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Wonderful Tools for Insights" September 13, 2022 5.0 Wonderful Pros Best and ease of usage for both developers and end users Cons NA because everything looks good to me and my team Switched from [Tableau](https://www.capterra.com/p/208764/Tableau/) Ease of use Review Source jO john O. Data Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Amazon QuickSight Review" January 30, 2023 4.0 This tools has helped me in Business Intelligence and visualization and creating stories to provide graphical details of the data. Pros It offers data upload from many data sources. Cons The entire tools completely meets all my needs Alternatives considered [Neon CRM](https://www.capterra.com/p/102088/NeonCRM/) Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight It offers a free trial version besides meets most of my business needs Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Commercial analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Super cool bi tool" July 28, 2021 5.0 So far I used several bi tools and although QuickSight is relatively new and not that widespread as for example Tableau, I can say that I enjoy using it from day 1 Pros Dashboards are very easy to create, a lot of data sources can be easily connected and the Performance of the System is quite great Cons Not that many tutorials and courses are available on the web Review Source NS Nirav S. Manager Automotive Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "QuickSight - Best way to look at data" August 13, 2022 5.0 We had been using a Business Intelligence platform called QlikView. But it froze a lot and could not load all the data. Also, we were not able to download data quickly using the same. It was a very slow tool. That is where we explored Amazon QuickSight. Pros \- Loads very fast even if you have heavy data to consume - Multiple users can check the data simultaneously - You can also check data using a mobile device through their app Cons 1\. It is very expensive 2. Limited ways to plot graphs Review Source JC Jorge C. SRE Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great BI tool" March 3, 2021 5.0 A great BI tool that can serve anyone. Easy to use on a beginner level, but also customizable enough for an advanced user. The drag and drop fields are very cool to test different layouts, and very quick to show the new graphs upon any change. Pros Very easy to use. It has a lot of graph options. Once a new type is selected, the visual automatically adapts and shows the new graph. The drag and drop fields make it easy to change the fields in order to achieve your goal. The ability of calculating fields using functions on Quicksights eases the load of doing it in the query. Cons The calculated fields and parameters can be a little complex, but totally worth the time spent on learning how to use them. I don't like the fact that in the Analysis screen, the visuals cannot be freely moved, and automatically stick to the above visual. It should be possible to add images in order to "beautify" the dashboards Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Export and Compliance Analyst Food Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy to implement and Use" March 5, 2019 5.0 Pros Functionalities related to the analysis are good and this was easy to implement Cons The learning curve involved with utilizing all the tools within the software is steep but rewarding. Review Source Soumya Ranjan S. Data analyst Medical Devices Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cloud based visualization tool" June 14, 2021 5.0 Pros Easy to log in ,no need to install in local system Cons Visualization and data integration can be improved ,there are lot of features available in other visualization tool like Power BI and Tableau Switched from [Tableau](https://www.capterra.com/p/208764/Tableau/) Tableau has better feature than AWS quicksight Review Source JB Jesse B. AVP Technical Solutions Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Quicksight can help you create visualizations quickly... most of the time" December 6, 2019 4.0 Quicksight could be extremely helpful for some lightweight use cases. It wasn't the best tool for a larger-scale integration into a SAS platform. Pros The interface is clean-looking, the charts and graphs look appealing, things seem to run quickly enough. Cons The data layer concept is a little harder to understand coming from other tools, the configuration interfaces for the visualizations feel a little clunky. Integrations are a little lacking. Review Source MR Md R. BUSINESS PROCESS EXPERT Legal Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Amazon Quicksight is good" January 14, 2023 5.0 My overall experience are good with this software. Pros All things are good in this product because i like to use very much. Cons I like all the things from this software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO & co-founder Internet Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "BI with direct integration with other AWS services" April 12, 2019 5.0 Pros Natively connects to RDS (MySQL) and lets us query the database to generate graphs. Their SPICE option creates a powerful index of the tables of which some of them are very large. That way we can query the SPICE index for additional speed without giving an extra load to our database for the BI dashboard. Cons Requires a certain level of technical knowledge to get started. Also, haven't figured out yet if it can be displayed on a TV like Geckoboard. Review Source CA Christopher A. Artist Arts and Crafts Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Amazon QuickSight Review" July 10, 2021 5.0 In general I'm only help to choose the software to a friend Pros This has pros like if you want business intelligence, that you can see the insight of your business like incomes and outcomes also a very detailed dashboard Cons The amazon quick sight software has cons like only it can used by who knows the software and economics and business systems Review Source CS Connor S. Product Owner Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great for Ad Hoc Reporting" October 1, 2018 4.0 Another quality product by Amazon - very trustworthy Pros Excellent for ad hoc reporting on corporate cloud data. Very secure, and friendly user-interface. Cons Amazon needs to continue supporting this software and not neglect it with new features. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "BI that scales" April 17, 2019 4.0 Pros Once you learn the basics, the logic and operations are very familiar for anyone who has a baseline data-analysis framework. Cons Sometimes there is lag with SPICE and visualizations, especially with larger datasets Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Administrator Human Resources Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Get a quick sight into your business with Quicksight" January 8, 2019 5.0 Pros It has visuals, sheets, stories, and a dashboard view. Cons AWS is growing and so are its features. So far, it's a good product. Review Source YM Yainer M. customer success Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Sosafe " December 2, 2021 4.0 Pros I could join all the data in custom reports and graphics Cons Is not easy to manage, the time its just UTC and you cant change it Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Manager Legal Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Still a young product" April 20, 2018 1.0 Too young of a product. Pros I love the fact that I can run this in my AWS VPC. It is easy to setup and you can be up and running with in an hour. Cons Very young and not easy to configure. We spent a lot of time playing with it to get a result that is useful for our data. 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