Building Multi-Region Visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon QuickSight for Telecom Carrier Analysis

An AWS Machine Learning blog post describes how to use Highcharts custom visualizations in Amazon QuickSight for multi-region telecom carrier performance dashboards. Native QuickSight visuals cannot encode carrier dominance per geographic tile, render radar charts for multiple carriers across categories, or produce bullet and dumbbell charts needed for nuanced analysis. By embedding Highcharts with a single JSON configuration, users can create tilemaps, polar line charts, bullet charts, dumbbell charts, waterfall charts, and streamgraphs. A key challenge is data residency requirements, such as UK GDPR for UK carrier data. Two architectural options are presented: a single AWS Region (simpler but may violate data sovereignty) or separate AWS Regions per country with federated dataset joins at the QuickSight layer. The post walks through Option 2, which aggregates data in regional SPICE instances and appends them into a unified logical dataset without moving raw data across borders. Dataset schema includes carrier, category, country, rank, rootscore, and product_period. The walkthrough covers data source setup, aggregation, field well bindings using placeholder tokens, and ready-to-use Highcharts JSON configurations.