A marketing team needs serverless business intelligence that builds interactive dashboards and visualizations from data in S3, Redshift, and RDS. Which service should they use?
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Answer: B
Amazon Quick Sight is AWS's serverless, machine-learning-powered business intelligence service for producing interactive dashboards and visualizations. It connects natively to a wide range of sources including S3, Redshift, RDS, and Athena, and pricing scales with actual user activity.
Athena only executes SQL queries and returns result rows, CloudWatch dashboards plot operational metrics rather than business analytics, and Glue prepares and catalogs data without any visualization layer.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Athena performs SQL analysis but renders no dashboards; its output would feed a tool like Quick Sight.
- C. CloudWatch dashboards visualize operational metrics such as CPU or errors, not business intelligence reports.
- D. Glue is an ETL service that catalogs and transforms data; it has no business-intelligence visualization features.