Amazon QuickSight Q Amazon Q in QuickSight
Natural language querying and generative business intelligence assistant for building visuals, executive summaries, data stories, and conversational analytics in Amazon QuickSight.
Naming timeline
- Amazon QuickSight Q
Announced in preview at AWS re:Invent 2020 and reached general availability on September 24, 2021 as an ML-powered natural language query add-on using QuickSight Q Topics.
- Amazon Q in QuickSightCurrent name
Rebranded from Amazon QuickSight Q to Amazon Q in QuickSight with generative BI authoring, executive summaries, and data stories (subsequently also styled as Amazon Q in Quick / Generative BI with Quick Sight after the October 2025 Amazon Quick expansion).
What is Amazon QuickSight Q called now?
Amazon QuickSight Q is now called Amazon Q in QuickSight, with the latest change on 28 November 2023 (AWS re:Invent 2023 (GA April 30, 2024)). Natural language querying and generative business intelligence assistant for building visuals, executive summaries, data stories, and conversational analytics in Amazon QuickSight. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- QuickSight Q
- Generative BI in QuickSight
- Amazon Q in Quick
- Amazon Quick chat
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | quicksight |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws quicksight |
| IAM Actions & Policies | quicksight:* |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_quicksight_topic aws_quicksight_dashboard aws_quicksight_analysis |
All Q Topics and Generative BI APIs continue to operate under the quicksight API/CLI/IAM namespace.
Notes & disambiguation
- Originally launched in preview at AWS re:Invent 2020 and generally available on September 24, 2021 as Amazon QuickSight Q, the natural language BI capability was rebranded to Amazon Q in QuickSight (preview November 28, 2023; general availability April 30, 2024) powered by Amazon Bedrock.
- Following the October 9, 2025 expansion of Amazon QuickSight into the broader Amazon Quick suite (where QuickSight continues as Amazon Quick Sight), official documentation also refers to the capability as 'Amazon Q in Quick', 'Generative BI with Quick Sight', and 'Amazon Quick chat'.
- All underlying API operations, CLI commands, IAM actions, and Terraform resources remain under the quicksight namespace (e.g., quicksight:CreateTopic, aws quicksight, aws_quicksight_topic).
Sources & official documentation
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