Amazon QuickSight BI Service gets Anomaly Detection. After previously infusing its Amazon QuickSight business Intelligence (BI) service (with machine learning functionality), Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has boosted it again with new features, including anomaly detection. Amazon QuickSight, a fully managed BI cloud service, is known for its pay-per-session pricing model. This is reportedly the first of its kind in the industry. AWS introduced several enhancements to the service last week, including anomaly detection. AWS stated that QuickSight Anomaly detection allows you to uncover hidden insights within your data by continuously analysing billions of data points. With the current launch, subscribers can subscribe to receive email alerts when an anomaly occurs in business metrics. These alerts will also highlight the factors that lead to these anomalies. This allows you to immediately address the business metrics that require attention. These alerts can be configured based on the significance of the anomaly or its directionality. Other improvements include:

Support for Favorites allows users to bookmark dashboards and analyzes.
Filtering past N data points within a set can be used, for example, to view sales metrics from a previous week, while excluding incomplete data from the current week.
Word Cloud is a new chart type that visually represents insights from categorical fields as well as their corresponding metrics.

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