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AWS Service Catalog

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AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. With Service Catalog, administrators can centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and end users can accurately deploy only the approved IT services they need. Service Catalog provides a shared library of IT services that have pre-defined configurations for items like computing resources, software, and storage. This shared library of approved products standardizes technology assets across your organization. Administrators create and publish catalogs of these approved products. End users can then launch and use those approved products without requiring deep technical skills or even knowing anything about the underlying infrastructure.  Some key features of AWS Service Catalog include: - Product ad...

An Introduction to Amazon QuickSight

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Amazon QuickSight is Amazon Web Services's (AWS) cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for users of all skill levels to visualize data and perform ad-hoc analysis using fully managed, secure analytics. With this easy to use, serverless BI tool, users can quickly obtain insights from all their data whether it resides in Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), or other data sources.  Some key features of Amazon QuickSight include: - Serverless architecture - There is no infrastructure to provision, manage, patch or scale. QuickSight automatically scales to support thousands of concurrent users and large datasets for high performance. - Easy data ingestion - Connect to data stored in AWS data stores like Amazon S3, Redshift, RDS with one click. QuickSight can also connect to other data sources using custom JDBC/ODBC connectors.  - Interactive dashboards - Quickly build intuitive dashboards with filters, pivot...