Amazon QuickSight recently added support for Amazon Athena Federated Query, which allows you to query data in place from various data sources. With this capability, QuickSight can extend support to query additional data sources like Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo DB compatibility) via their existing Amazon Athena data source. You can also use the Athena Query Federation SDK to write custom connectors and query any source accessible with a Java API, whether it is relational, non-relational, object, or a custom data endpoint.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/create-a-custom-data-connector-to-slacks-member-analytics-api-in-amazon-quicksight-with-amazon-athena-federated-query/