Get started with Generative BI - Amazon QuickSight

Get started with Generative BI

To get started with Amazon Q in QuickSight Generative BI capabilities, upgrade your account's users to Admin Pro, Author Pro, or Reader Pro roles. Pro roles grant users access to all Generative BI capabilities that are relevant to the role that's assigned to the user. Pro users can share generative Q&A topics with anoTo understand which Generative BI capabilities are available to the different user roles in QuickSight, see the table below. For more information about QuickSight Pro roles, see Amazon QuickSight Pricing.

Note

Non-Pro Authors and Readers can still access Generative Q&A topics if an Author Pro or Admin Pro user shares the topic with them. Non-Pro Authors and Readers can also access data stories if a Reader Pro, Author Pro, or Admin Pro shares one with them.

Feature name Feature description Reader Author Admin Reader Pro Author Pro Admin Pro

Build data stories

Build data stories that explain your data with visuals, insights, and ideas to help improve your business.

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

View data stories

View narrative data stories that are shared with you.

Yes*

Yes*

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Yes

Create and share Generative Q&A topics

Create and refine topics that utilize Generative Q&A for dashboards.

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Ask questions about data with Generative Q&A

Ask questions about data to accelerate data driven decisions with multi-visual answers.

Yes*

Yes*

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Yes

Executive summaries

Get an executive summary of key insights from a dashboard.

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Build an analysis with natural language

Create an analysis to build visuals, calculations, and refine existing visuals with natural language.

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

*Non-pro roles in accounts that were created on or after April 30, 2024 can access Q&A topics that are shared with them. If your QuickSight account was created before April 30, 2024 and you want to opt-in to this new feature, contct your AWS account team. For more information about non pro-role pricing for accounts created after April 30, 2024, see Amazon QuickSight Pricing.

Any QuickSight administrator can upgrade a user to a Pro role with the following procedure.

To upgrade a user to a Pro role
  1. Open the QuickSight console.

  2. Choose the user icon at the top right, and then choose Manage QuickSight.

  3. Choose Manage users to open the Manage Users page.

  4. To change the role of an existing user, locate that user on the Manage Users table and choose the role that you want to grant them from the Role dropdown. The image below shows the Manage users table with the Role dropdown opened.

    The Manage users table with the Role dropdown open.

For more information about managing QuickSight users, see Managing user access inside Amazon QuickSight.