Amazon Quicksight Updates & Release Notes

AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content.

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base already supports media search by transcribing audio and video to text and generating text-based embeddings—Marengo 3.0 goes further by encoding visual scenes, speech, and video cues directly into multimodal embeddings, capturing meaning that transcription alone cannot. Simply upload your media assets from data sources such as Amazon S3, sync, and search using natural language—with no infrastructure to manage.

Marengo 3.0 produces compact 512-dimensional vectors, delivering state-of-the-art retrieval accuracy. Results include segment start and end times, enabling applications to jump directly to the relevant moment in a video. This unlocks use cases across sports analytics, media and entertainment, security, education, and retail—from finding specific plays across seasons of game footage to locating lecture segments by concept rather than keywords. The model offers configurable segmentation options to match your content structure.

To learn more, see TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 embedding model integration in the Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base User Guide. For more information, visit the Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases product page.

The Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows. The desktop app brings the full power of Amazon Quick to your computer, working directly with your local files and staying connected to your calendar, email, and business apps in the background. Quick keeps your conversations, context, and agents synchronized across the desktop and mobile applications, so work you start on one surface carries over to the other, enabling you to work wherever you want.

Additionally, with this release, Amazon Quick agents run continuously in the background, even after you close your computer, so long-running work keeps making progress while you're away. Start an agent before you leave the office, provide additional inputs from the mobile app during your commute home, and then review the final output when you arrive. Quick offers production-grade stability, maintains AWS SLA commitments, and offers the governance and administrative controls for deployments at enterprise scale.

The Amazon Quick desktop app is available in 7 regions, US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Sydney), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt)

Existing Quick users can download the desktop app from here. The Quick mobile application is available for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-quick-desktop-app-generally-available-macos-windows/

The Amazon Quick activity feed is now available on the Amazon Quick mobile app for iOS and Android, keeping you connected to your most important work from anywhere.

The activity feed is your single, prioritized view of everything that needs your attention across your enterprise communications and tools, so you don't have to check each one separately. Items requiring your attention populate the top of your feed, and instead of switching between apps, you can take action directly from within Quick. Never miss something time-sensitive, even when you're away from your desk. Your decide which notifications are important and which are noise. Over time, Quick learns your priorities and surfaces only the things that matter.

You can also ask Quick to post anything to your feed through a routine, pulling from any connected data source. For example, you can tell Quick “every morning at 7:30, tell me which customer meetings I have that day and give me 3 bullet points to prep”.

Additionally, as part of today's announcement, Amazon Quick retains context across the desktop and mobile applications. Any work you do on one surface carries over to the other, so you can start a chat or assign a task to an agent on your desktop, then review progress and continue the chat from your mobile device, picking up right where you left off when you're back at your computer.

The Amazon Quick mobile app is included with your existing Amazon Quick access at no additional cost.

Existing Quick customers can download the Quick mobile application for iOS from the Apple App Store, and Android from the Google Play Store. If you're new to Quick, visit the Quick Product Page to create an account for free in minutes.

Today, Amazon Quick offers new capabilities that make it easier to organize your work, govern it across an organization, and trust the answers it produces. These capabilities build on Amazon Quick across desktop and mobile, bringing enterprise-grade management, richer collaboration, and always-on intelligence to teams wherever they work.

Your agents no longer stop when you step away. Scheduled tasks and monitoring agents run in the cloud and deliver results to your feed even when your laptop is closed. A sharper activity feed adds top-level filters, an improved catch-up view, a daily briefing that refreshes three times a day, and search across up to seven days of feed data, so you see what needs you first. Administrators gain mobile device management support, custom per-user permissions, and Microsoft Purview data loss prevention integration. Teams can share files and publish agents and skills for others to discover and install, and browse a catalog of official skills. Quick spaces and Quick apps now run natively on the desktop, any indexed local folder can become a searchable space, and inline citations let you verify every answer against its source. Additionally, every Quick subscriber now gets more agent hours each month — Professional grows from 4 to 8 and Enterprise from 8 to 18 — combined into a single, simpler allotment.

New users can create an account for free and start using Quick in minutes. Or to learn more, visit the Amazon Quick product page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-quick-always-on-agents-sharper-feed-enterprise-controls/

Amazon Quick now offers Quick Max, a new plan for power users who want to get the absolute most out of Quick. With 5x the usage and 5x the storage of Plus, Max gives you the room to do more: more agents, more workflows, more of whatever makes Quick yours.

With Max, you can run large, concurrent workloads without interruption—all month long. It delivers more value per dollar the more you use it and is available with both monthly and annual billing options.

New to Amazon Quick? You can sign up for free in minutes. Already on Plus? Click your name at the bottom of the left navigation bar, then select “Upgrade plan” to switch to Max. To compare all available plans—Free, Plus, and Max—visit the Amazon Quick pricing page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-quick-max-5x-usage-power-users/

Amazon Quick now offers Quick Max, a new plan for power users who want to get the absolute most out of Quick. With 5x the usage and 5x the storage of Plus, Max gives you the room to do more: more agents, more workflows, more of whatever makes Quick yours.

With Max, you can run large, concurrent workloads without interruption—all month long. It delivers more value per dollar the more you use it and is available with both monthly and annual billing options.

New to Amazon Quick? You can sign up for free in minutes. Already on Plus? Click your name at the bottom of the left navigation bar, then select “Upgrade plan” to switch to Max. To compare all available plans—Free, Plus, and Max—visit the Amazon Quick pricing page.

Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are deployed and kept up to date.

Connector owners and admins can now selectively enable or disable individual tools within a connector to ensure only approved tools are available to end users. Additionally, new tool permission settings let connector owners decide which tools require consent before proceeding or give end users the flexibility to decide for themselves. Lastly, MCP sync keeps connectors current as external MCP servers add new tools, update descriptions, and evolve their capabilities, ensuring users always have the latest information to get their work done.

These features are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are deployed and kept up to date.

Connector owners and admins can now selectively enable or disable individual tools within a connector to ensure only approved tools are available to end users. Additionally, new tool permission settings let connector owners decide which tools require consent before proceeding or give end users the flexibility to decide for themselves. Lastly, MCP sync keeps connectors current as external MCP servers add new tools, update descriptions, and evolve their capabilities, ensuring users always have the latest information to get their work done.

These features are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months. Whether you’re a product manager, finance lead, HR partner, or ops analyst, you can now turn ideas into fully functional apps without writing any code. Tell Quick what you need, and it builds a live, connected application with real-time data from your existing business systems.

Quick connects directly to the tools and data your business already uses, including Salesforce, Jira, Asana, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, databases, and data warehouses. Your apps stay current automatically as underlying data changes, and every connection respects your organization’s existing identity, authorization, and access control policies. Once built, you can publish and share apps instantly with specific users or your entire organization. Need to make a change like adding AI, updating the visual style, or connecting to another system? Just describe what you want and Quick handles it.

During preview, customers used Quick to replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools with purpose-built applications. New York Life built an e-learning portal for their Institutional Life team that consolidates onboarding, training, and compliance courses into a single experience. The Amazon Quick team tracks pipeline, customer requests, and adoption metrics in a weekly leadership review app that replaced manual data pulls from four different systems.

Building apps in Quick is available to Plus, Professional, and Enterprise customers starting September 1, 2026. To learn more, visit the Apps in Quick getting-started guide.

Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months. Whether you’re a product manager, finance lead, HR partner, or ops analyst, you can now turn ideas into fully functional apps without writing any code. Tell Quick what you need, and it builds a live, connected application with real-time data from your existing business systems.

Quick connects directly to the tools and data your business already uses, including Salesforce, Jira, Asana, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, databases, and data warehouses. Your apps stay current automatically as underlying data changes, and every connection respects your organization’s existing identity, authorization, and access control policies. Once built, you can publish and share apps instantly with specific users or your entire organization. Need to make a change like adding AI, updating the visual style, or connecting to another system? Just describe what you want and Quick handles it.

During preview, customers used Quick to replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools with purpose-built applications. New York Life built an e-learning portal for their Institutional Life team that consolidates onboarding, training, and compliance courses into a single experience. The Amazon Quick team tracks pipeline, customer requests, and adoption metrics in a weekly leadership review app that replaced manual data pulls from four different systems.

Building apps in Quick is available to Plus, Professional, and Enterprise customers starting September 1, 2026. To learn more, visit the Apps in Quick getting-started guide.

Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization’s AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick.

AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, users can enable it with a few clicks. Connection details are already populated from the registry. Once enabled, these resources can be shared with teams for use across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research.

This integration bridges the gap between technical teams who build agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and business users who work in Amazon Quick. Organizations no longer need to manually configure connections to agents and tools that already exist in their AWS Agent Registry. Business users get access through their familiar Amazon Quick workspace without duplicate effort.

Amazon Quick integration with AWS Agent Registry is available in all AWS Regions where both Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore are available. This includes US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland).

To get started, open the Amazon Quick admin console and go to Manage account, Permissions, AWS Agent Registry to connect your registry. To learn more, see the Amazon Quick Integrations documentation and the AWS Agent Registry documentation.

Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization’s AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, users can enable it with a few clicks. Connection details are already populated from the registry. Once enabled, these resources can be shared with teams for use across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research.

This integration bridges the gap between technical teams who build agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and business users who work in Amazon Quick. Organizations no longer need to manually configure connections to agents and tools that already exist in their AWS Agent Registry. Business users get access through their familiar Amazon Quick workspace without duplicate effort.

Amazon Quick integration with AWS Agent Registry is available in all AWS Regions where both Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore are available. This includes US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland).

To get started, open the Amazon Quick admin console and go to Manage account, Permissions, AWS Agent Registry to connect your registry. To learn more, see the Amazon Quick Integrations documentation and the AWS Agent Registry documentation.

Amazon Quick custom permissions now include deny by default, a governance setting that automatically restricts new AI capabilities before they reach users.

Previously, new AI capabilities were available to all users on release, requiring administrators to react after the fact. With deny by default, administrators restrict the AI capability category in a custom permissions profile and assign it to users, roles, or the entire account. Quick then denies any new AI capability at launch for those users. Restricting a category also restricts existing capabilities in it. Administrators explicitly allow each capability when ready. The restriction applies only to the profile you configure.

Configure deny by default in Manage account in Amazon Quick or through the AWS CLI. To learn more, see Custom permissions deny by default. Deny by default is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-quick-deny-by-default

Amazon Quick custom permissions now include deny by default, a governance setting that automatically restricts new AI capabilities before they reach users.

Previously, new AI capabilities were available to all users on release, requiring administrators to react after the fact. With deny by default, administrators restrict the AI capability category in a custom permissions profile and assign it to users, roles, or the entire account. Quick then denies any new AI capability at launch for those users. Restricting a category also restricts existing capabilities in it. Administrators explicitly allow each capability when ready. The restriction applies only to the profile you configure.

Configure deny by default in Manage account in Amazon Quick or through the AWS CLI. To learn more, see Custom permissions deny by default. Deny by default is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-quick-deny-by-default

Amazon Quick announces the general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. These extensions enable Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ M365 environments, using AI to handle complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, creating presentation-ready decks, and managing Outlook inboxes.

The Excel extension helps with complex spreadsheet analysis, creating pivot tables and charts, and importing and cleaning data. The PowerPoint extension helps you create and refine presentations from Quick data using organization-defined templates. The Word extension generates formatted documents with Word primitives, makes sweeping edits with track changes enabled, and participates as a reviewer in comments. The Outlook extension performs inbox and calendaring tasks such as prioritizing emails, organizing your inbox, scheduling meetings, and drafting replies using your Quick data and entire inbox context.

These extensions transform daily work across teams. Finance teams can build complex models by describing what they need. Sales teams can draft proposals that automatically pull from CRM data. Marketing teams can create branded presentations without manual formatting. Legal teams can streamline contract reviews. Operations teams can manage email workflows and schedule meetings intelligently, and IT teams can automate routine data analysis that previously required manual effort.

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more, see Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work, and download extensions on the Quick download page.