Quicksight Q vs Amazon Q

Might be a very silly question but can someone tell me if Amazon Q is just an enhancement to Quicksight Q or if they are 2 different features - and if so how are they different?

My understanding is that Quicksight Q was launched in 2020 with inbuilt forecasting , anomaly detection and insights generation features which was based on ML. But Amazon Q was launched probably recently in 2023 or so and is built on top of BedRock to enable GenAI abilities.

Does that mean that now Amazon Q is an umbrella term used to refer to the GenAI plus all that was being offered by Quicksight Q earlier? Or do we still use these 2 terms in different contexts ?

HEllo Roshni,

Welcome to the QS community !

Let me try to explain based on my understanding , hopefully you get some insight and surely other members can also provide their inputs.

2019 Dashboarding and ML- Insight

Quickisght Q
2020 - Q NLQ
2022 - Q why & forecasting features added

2023 - GenBI (preview) - Amazon Q Developer integrated with Amazon QuickSight (powered by Amazon Bedrock)

My understanding is that Quicksight Q was launched in 2020 with inbuilt forecasting , anomaly detection and insights generation features which was based on ML. But Amazon Q was launched probably recently in 2023 or so and is built on top of BedRock to enable GenAI abilities.

→ I would say yes.

Does that mean that now Amazon Q is an umbrella term used to refer to the GenAI plus all that was being offered by Quicksight Q earlier? Or do we still use these 2 terms in different contexts ?

→ I would say yes, Amazon Q is broader can be used on multiple things like application, code development, connect, supply chain etc ( Its GenAI assistance design for your work) and is not only an expert in your business by connecting to your company’s information repositories and enterprise systems but it is also an expert in building on AWS.
Amazon Q in QuickSight, allows your employees to ask questions to their dashboards, and quickly build new dashboards by describing the data they want to visualize.

QuickSight Q - is Natural Language Query component that allows users to ask data questions in plain English and get quick answers. QuickSight Q pushes the boundary of BI with ML-powered NLQ.

Amazon Q brings three experiences to QuickSight users: AI-accelerated dashboard authoring, AI-answered questions of data, and AI-assisted data storytelling.
Similar to quicksight Q but more advanced features have been added by integrating with Amazon Q with an AI assisted data story . This enables business users to discover and share findings from their data to drive team decisions so this is a huge new feature that we launched in 2023. ( currently in preview )
Once its GA - Author and reader pricing would slightly increase as Author pro and Reader pro.

Hope this give some insights.

Cheers,
Deep