DEA-C01 Question 338
Single answerYou are working as a Data Engineer for a company that stores its sales data in Amazon Redshift. The business team has requested a dashboard to visualize daily sales trends. They want the ability to create interactive visualizations, such as charts and graphs, with minimal development effort. Which service would you use to fulfill this requirement?
- A
Amazon QuickSight
- B
AWS Glue
- C
Amazon S3
- D
Amazon Managed Grafana
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Amazon QuickSight is the best choice for creating interactive visualizations and dashboards directly from Amazon Redshift with minimal development effort. It is specifically designed for BI use cases like the one described in the scenario.
- A. Correct.
Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed BI (business intelligence) service that allows you to create interactive dashboards and visualizations directly from data sources, including Amazon Redshift, with minimal development effort. It is ideal for the scenario described.
- B. Incorrect.
AWS Glue is a data integration service used for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. While it can prepare data for analysis, it does not provide visualization capabilities.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon S3 is an object storage service that can store data but does not offer visualization or dashboarding capabilities.
- D. Incorrect.
Amazon Managed Grafana is a service tailored for monitoring and observability, primarily used for time-series data in operational dashboards, rather than for business intelligence or general data analysis.