Amazon Quicksight Updates & Release Notes

Today, Amazon Quick is announcing cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources. This launch enables you to query Athena data residing in a different AWS account(s) from your Quick deployment using IAM role chaining, with Athena query costs billed to the account where the data lives.

With this feature, administrators can create an Athena data source in Quick by specifying a RunAsRole in the Quick account and a ConsumerAccountRoleArn in the target account where Athena resources reside. Quick uses a role chaining mechanism first assuming the RunAsRole, then chaining into the consumer account role to execute queries. This launch supports multiple roles per consumer account(s), enabling fine-grained access segregation across teams within a single account.

This feature is now available in all supported Amazon Quick Sight regions here. For more details, read our blog post.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-quick-athena/

Amazon Quick, your AI assistant for work, now integrates with New Relic’s AI agents, enabling on-call engineers, SREs, and engineering leaders to investigate incidents, generate root cause analysis briefs, and create tracked tasks without leaving their Amazon Quick workspace.

After connecting to New Relic’s remote model context protocol (MCP) server, you can invoke New Relic’s AI agents directly from a conversational prompt in Quick – including alert insights, user impact analysis, log analysis, transaction diagnostics, and natural language NRQL queries. In a single chat exchange, you can investigate an incident across your observability data, generate a root cause analysis (RCA) document with evidence links, and send it as an email attachment. Quick Flows can also invoke New Relic AI agents to automate recurring triage runbooks or escalation workflows. Because Quick surfaces responses alongside enterprise knowledge stored in Spaces - such as runbooks, architecture docs, and on-call policies—every answer reflects both live telemetry and organizational context.

The New Relic integration with Amazon Quick is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

To get started with Amazon Quick, visit the website and sign up in minutes. To learn more about the New Relic integration, read the New Relic integration guide, and explore more Quick integrations on the integrations page.

Amazon Quick now generates dashboards from natural language prompts with Generate Analysis. You describe the dashboard you want, select up to three datasets, and review an editable plan before generation. Amazon Quick then produces organized sheets with visuals selected for your data, filter controls for exploring by different dimensions, and calculated fields such as year-over-year growth and month-over-month comparisons. Generate Analysis reduces dashboard creation from hours of manual configuration to minutes.

With Generate Analysis, you can describe goals such as "create a sales performance dashboard with revenue trends, regional comparisons, and month-over-month growth" and receive a dashboard ready for refinement. The output works with existing publishing workflows, embedding, CI/CD pipelines, and point-and-click editing.

At launch, Generate Analysis is available to Enterprise subscription/Author Pro users. Authors also have promotional access to this capability through December 2026 as part of Amazon Quick Enterprise, provided their organization has not restricted access. Generate Analysis is now generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

To learn more, see Generating an analysis with natural language prompts in the Amazon Quick User Guide. To get started, open any dataset in Amazon Quick and choose Generate analysis.

AWS Transform customers can now use BI migration agents to convert Tableau and Power BI dashboards to Amazon Quick Sight (BI capability of Amazon Quick) assets, helping reduce migration effort from months to days.

These agents are built by Wavicle Data Solutions, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, leveraging the AWS Transform initiative to create differentiated transformation solutions by integrating specialized agents, tools, knowledge bases, and workflow with AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities.

Four agents are available for purchase through AWS Marketplace: one Analyzer agent and one Converter agent for each BI migration source (Power BI and Tableau).

AWS Transform

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents, agentic AI systems, and continuous learning that accelerates cloud migration, legacy app modernization, and tech debt reduction.

These new BI migration agents are embedded into the AWS Transform workflow and use a chat-based interface to assess your source dashboards for migration readiness, then convert them – rebuilding datasets, calculated fields, visualizations, and filters in Amazon Quick Sight.

All processing runs within your AWS account; no data leaves your environment.

After conversion, your Amazon Quick administrators assign dashboard ownership to BI authors for validation and publishing.

Once migrated, your teams can take advantage of Amazon Quick's AI-powered workflows, including natural-language business questions, automated research, and data-driven actions.

Availability

The BI migration agents are available through AWS Marketplace in US East (N. Virginia).

They support Quick Sight asset creation in all commercial regions where Amazon Quick Sight is available.

To get started, subscribe through AWS Marketplace (Power BI or Tableau) or contact your AWS account team to explore available programs for free or discounted Amazon Quick migrations.

Read more in this blog post.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/quick-bi-migration/

AWS Transform customers can now use BI migration agents to convert Tableau and Power BI dashboards to Amazon Quick Sight (BI capability of Amazon Quick) assets, helping reduce migration effort from months to days. These agents are built by Wavicle Data Solutions, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, leveraging the AWS Transform initiative to create differentiated transformation solutions by integrating specialized agents, tools, knowledge bases, and workflow with AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities. Four agents are available for purchase through AWS Marketplace: one Analyzer agent and one Converter agent for each BI migration source (Power BI and Tableau).

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents, agentic AI systems, and continuous learning that accelerates cloud migration, legacy app modernization, and tech debt reduction. These new BI migration agents are embedded into the AWS Transform workflow and use a chat-based interface to assess your source dashboards for migration readiness, then convert them – rebuilding datasets, calculated fields, visualizations, and filters in Amazon Quick Sight. All processing runs within your AWS account; no data leaves your environment. After conversion, your Amazon Quick administrators assign dashboard ownership to BI authors for validation and publishing. Once migrated, your teams can take advantage of Amazon Quick’s AI-powered workflows, including natural-language business questions, automated research, and data-driven actions.

The BI migration agents are available through AWS Marketplace in US East (N. Virginia). They support Quick Sight asset creation in all commercial regions where Amazon Quick Sight is available. To get started, subscribe through AWS Marketplace (Power BI or Tableau) or contact your AWS account team to explore available programs for free or discounted Amazon Quick migrations. Read more in this blog post.

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Today, Amazon Quick introduces new and upgraded Microsoft 365 extensions in preview for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, enabling Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ Microsoft 365 environments.

These extensions allow you to use AI to perform complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, and creating presentation-ready decks.

The Microsoft Excel extension helps with complex spreadsheet analysis, creating pivot tables and charts, and importing and cleaning data. The Microsoft PowerPoint extension helps you create and refine presentations from Quick data using organization-defined templates. Updates to the Microsoft Word extension include the ability to generate formatted documents with Word primitives, make sweeping edits with track changes enabled, and participate as a reviewer in comments.

These extensions transform daily work across teams. Finance teams can build complex models by describing what they need, and 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, and IT teams can automate routine data analysis that previously required manual effort.

Amazon Quick extensions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).

Start working with Amazon Quick by signing up for an account. To learn more about Amazon Quick, visit the Quick website, and install extensions on the Quick download page.

Quick Sight in Amazon Quick now supports custom sort for filter controls, giving authors control over how values appear in dropdown and list controls. Previously, filter control values were always sorted alphabetically. With custom sort, authors can arrange values to match business logic or rank them by a related metric, so the most relevant options appear first.

Custom sort applies to dropdown and list controls, both single-select and multi-select. Authors can choose ascending, descending, or a fully user-defined order for controls with manually entered values. For controls tied to a dataset column, authors can sort by that column or by a different field using aggregation functions like Sum, Average, Count, Min, and Max. For example, a priority field can be ordered as Critical, High, Medium, Low instead of alphabetically, or a list of product categories can be ranked by total revenue so top sellers surface first.

This feature is now available in all Amazon Quick regions where Quick Sight is supported. Learn more about sorting filter control values in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/quick-filter-control-sort/

Starting today, new Free and Plus pricing plans for Amazon Quick allow you to sign up in minutes using your personal email address or existing Google, Apple, Github, or Amazon credentials—no AWS account required. A guided onboarding experience helps you find value in less than 5 minutes, with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, operations, and more.

Amazon Quick is an AI assistant that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes—for you and your entire team. Quick connects with all your applications, tools, and data, creating your own personal knowledge graph that learns your priorities, preferences, and network. It doesn’t just answer your questions; it knows how you want to work. Give it a task and it takes action—scheduling meetings, sending emails, and following up on action items. Whether you’re a seller looking to prioritize leads and generate personalized outreach to top prospects or a marketing manager looking to optimize campaign performance, Quick learns what matters to you and your team, grounds every answer in your real business data, and goes beyond answers: scheduling, building deliverables, and acting on your behalf.

You can sign up for an account and start working in Amazon Quick in minutes. By the end of the day, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it. Amazon Quick is also available through Professional and Enterprise plans that include additional agentic/business intelligence capabilities, enterprise governance, support for any number of users, and more. To compare plans, visit the Amazon Quick pricing plans page. Visit Signing up at quick.aws.com documentation.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-free-plus/

Today, AWS announces new features in preview for Amazon Quick, allowing users to create custom web applications in minutes using natural language. Creating internal tools and web applications typically requires developer resources or technical skills, but with this new capability, any user can simply describe what they need and get a fully interactive application—no coding required. These applications connect to live data sources, implement complex workflows, embed AI-powered features, and can be published and shared with your team in one click.

Whether you’re a sales leader wanting to create an application for pipeline review by pulling data from a CRM and other business applications in real time, or a finance manager looking to simplify monthly close by aggregating information from QuickBooks, Excel, and internal systems, Quick allows anyone to create applications that will drive their business forward using a simple prompt.

Amazon Quick is an AI assistant for work that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes — for you and your entire team. You can sign up for an account and start working with Amazon Quick for free; no AWS account or credit card is required. A guided onboarding experience helps you find value in less than 5 minutes, with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, HR, and more. To learn more about building applications in Quick, visit the product documentation or Amazon Quick product page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/custom-applications/

Amazon Quick is expanding integrations with 13 new built-in action connectors, all supporting managed authentication so users can securely connect their accounts in just a few clicks without manual credentials setup. Amazon Quick is an AI assistant that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes—for you and your entire team. Quick brings all your tools and data together in one place. It learns what matters to you and your team, grounds every answer in your real business data, and goes beyond answers: scheduling, building deliverables, creating dashboards, and acting on your behalf.

With Quick, business users can now take action directly across Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Slides, Google Meet, Google Analytics, Zoom, QuickBooks, Airtable, and Dropbox. For example, you can draft and send emails in Gmail, update a Google Sheet with the latest data, schedule a meeting in Google Calendar, share files from Google Drive or Dropbox, schedule a Zoom meeting, sync financial records in QuickBooks, manage projects in Airtable, or collaborate with your team in Microsoft Teams, all without leaving Quick. Each connector includes built-in sign-in support, so Quick securely handles the account authorization flow on your behalf, making it easy to get connected in just a few clicks.

These connectors are now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

Start working with Amazon Quick by signing up for an account. To learn more about integrations, visit the integrations webpage and documentation.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-google-workspace-zoom/

Today, Amazon Quick introduces document and visual creation capabilities, enabling you to produce polished documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and more through natural language without leaving your conversation. No more switching between multiple tools to draft reports, build decks, or format tables. Quick users can now create documents and visuals, refine them in conversation or inline, and download finished files including Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel formats.

Quick also generates images, infographics, charts, and other visuals you can embed in any document or presentation, or export as standalone image files, all from the same conversation. Visual creation is currently available in preview.

Whether you need to generate an executive briefing from meeting notes, create a deck to review quarterly sales trends, build a spreadsheet in Excel or produce an infographic that brings your data to life, Quick handles the end-to-end creation process within your existing chat workflow. This capability is ideal for business analysts, product managers, marketing, finance, and operations teams who need to quickly transform data and insights into shareable, presentation-ready materials without switching tools.

Document creation is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is currently supported. Visual creation (preview) is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.

You can sign up for an account and start working with Quick for free; no AWS account or credit card is required. To get started with document and visual creation, open a chat conversation and describe whatever you need created. To learn more, see the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Amazon Quick is now available as a native desktop application for macOS and Windows in preview. The desktop application extends Quick beyond your browser and utilizes the capabilities on your computer– including direct access to local files, proactive OS-level notifications, and native desktop control. Teams and individuals who want an AI assistant that understands their full work context across files, calendar, communications, and applications can now run Quick directly on their desktop.

With Quick on your desktop, you can read and work with files on your computer without uploading them, receive notifications when action items, calendar conflicts, or messages need your attention, and automate browser-based tasks and desktop applications. Quick builds a personal knowledge graph that learns your people, projects, and relationships across every interaction–compounding context over time. For builders, the desktop application supports local Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections to coding agents. Memory, knowledge graph, and agents are shared across web and desktop, so your context travels with you across surfaces.

The Amazon Quick desktop application is available in preview to all Quick subscribers on macOS and Windows in all US East (N. Virginia).

To get started, download the Quick desktop application here. Start working with Amazon Quick by signing up for an account. To learn more, visit our website and Amazon Quick documentation.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-macos-windows-preview/

Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee

Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier’s people analytics platform, through the model context protocol (MCP). HR business partners, finance managers, and operations leaders can now get governed access to live workforce intelligence from Visier directly within their Amazon Quick workspace without switching tools.

After setting up the connection in Quick using Visier’s remote MCP server, you can ask questions in natural language about headcount, attrition, tenure, and open requisitions and receive answers grounded in Visier’s governed workforce data model. Vee can also be invoked from automated Quick Flows to run recurring workforce reviews or draft documents. Quick intelligently routes relevant prompts to Vee and returns contextualized answers alongside enterprise knowledge – such as budgets, policies, and plans stored in Quick Spaces – so every answer reflects the full organizational picture.

The Visier integration with Amazon Quick is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available.

To get started with Amazon Quick, visit the website. To learn more about the Visier integration, read the Visier integration guide, see the blog, and explore more integrations on the integrations page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-visier-vee

Amazon Quick now enables you to add co-owners to knowledge bases and data source connections for admin-managed Microsoft SharePoint Online and Google Drive integrations. This makes it easier to collaborate across teams and reuse existing connections without re-entering credentials.

Knowledge base owners can share their knowledge bases with two roles: Owner (full management access including editing, syncing, sharing, and deleting) and Viewer (query-only access). Co-owner sharing with the Owner role is available exclusively for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge bases. All other knowledge base types support Viewer sharing only. To share, navigate to the actions menu next to any knowledge base or use the Permissions tab.

Administrators can also share data source connections, allowing other users to create knowledge bases from the same connection. Data source sharing supports Owner (create knowledge bases and edit connection details) and Viewer (create knowledge bases only) roles. To share a data source, go to Manage account > Manage assets > Data sources and select the connection to share.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. For more information, see Knowledge Base Sharing in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Amazon Quick is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and Europe (Ireland). For more information, visit the Amazon Quick page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-sharepoint

Amazon Quick now provides ACL verification for ACL enabled knowledge bases, enabling administrators to check whether a specific user has access to a specific document. This feature simplifies troubleshooting access issues and helps confirm that sensitive documents are properly restricted, without manually tracing permission inheritance across your data sources.

To verify document access, open a knowledge base with document-level ACLs enabled, navigate to the Sync reports tab, and choose View Access Details from the actions menu next to any synced item. From the Access Details panel, use the Permission Checker to enter a user’s email address and instantly confirm whether they can access the document. The panel also displays all users and groups with access to the document, giving you full visibility into the applied permissions.

The Permission Checker returns one of three results: the user has access, the user does not have access, or no ACL was found for the document.

This feature is available for ACL enabled Knowledge Bases in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. For more information, see Sync reports and observability in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

Amazon Quick is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and Europe (Ireland). For more information, visit the Amazon Quick page.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-quick-acl