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GoDaddy Moves BI to Amazon Quick, Cuts Dashboards to Under 2,500 and Loads Under 5 Seconds

The company did more than change reporting software: it retired redundant dashboards, standardized the data path, and moved recurring analysis into AI-assisted flows. Its claimed time savings remain company estimates.

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GoDaddy Moves BI to Amazon Quick, Cuts Dashboards to Under 2,500 and Loads Under 5 Seconds

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GoDaddy has cut its dashboard count by more than half and reduced reported rendering times from peaks of 15 minutes to under five seconds, after moving from its legacy BI system to Amazon Quick. The company began evaluating alternatives in early 2023 and shut down the old platform in December 2025. But this was not a report-for-report migration. GoDaddy used the change to retire redundant and underused dashboards, leaving fewer than 2,500. At the end of 2025, it reported 2,532 dashboards, more than 4,298 active users, and 229 production topics. Amazon Quick was selected for its integration with Amazon’s cloud environment, automatic scaling, pay-as-you-go pricing, and built-in machine-learning features. Amazon Redshift now handles data connections, while Okta provides single sign-on. The bigger shift is from static reporting toward recurring analysis. Quick Flows reviews GoDaddy’s Weekly Business Review dashboards, identifies trends and anomalies, and prepares a structured executive summary. It has run more than 100 times since early 2026. Seven custom agents handle narrower jobs, including dashboard navigation, account growth, customer experience, and product management. GoDaddy recorded 1,999 agent queries in April and estimates the flows save more than 1,900 hours a year, with the agents saving about 6,000. Those are company estimates, as is the broader transformation total. The key constraint is whether this leaner, AI-assisted operating model keeps delivering value without rebuilding the dashboard sprawl it replaced.

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GoDaddy’s BI overhaul illustrates a migration used to rationalize analytics rather than reproduce legacy inventory: fewer than 2,500 dashboards remain from 5,000+, and reported render times fell below five seconds from peaks of 15 minutes. The AWS-based stack now supports automated weekly reviews and seven task-specific agents, with GoDaddy estimating 7,900+ annual hours saved from Quick automation. The figures are...

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    GoDaddy began evaluating alternatives in early 2023 and shut down its previous BI system in December 2025.

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    Amazon Redshift handles data connections, while Okta supplies single sign-on in the production deployment.

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    Quick Flows has run GoDaddy’s Weekly Business Review more than 100 times since early 2026, saving an estimated 1,900 hours annually.

GoDaddy has completed a roughly two-year migration from its legacy business-intelligence tool to Amazon Quick Sight, which became Amazon Quick in October 2025. The company shut down its prior system in December 2025 and says the move reduced its dashboard portfolio from more than 5,000 to fewer than 2,500 while cutting rendering times from as long as 15 minutes to under five seconds.

The migration was a redesign, not a straight transfer of reports. GoDaddy’s centralized BI team served marketing, finance, product and customer-experience teams, but demand exceeded its capacity. The company used the transition to retire redundant and underused dashboards instead of recreating its entire catalog.

A simpler route from data to report

GoDaddy began its formal BI evaluation in early 2023. It selected Quick Sight for integration with its AWS environment, serverless auto scaling, pay-as-you-go pricing and built-in machine-learning features. In the finished deployment, data connections run through Amazon Redshift and Okta provides single sign-on.

Automation takes on the weekly review

Amazon Quick added Quick Research, Quick Flows and custom chat agents alongside the core BI product. GoDaddy uses Quick Flows for its Weekly Business Review: the flow reviews relevant dashboards, finds trends and anomalies, and produces a structured summary for executive review. It has run more than 100 times since the start of 2026; GoDaddy estimates all flows save more than 1,900 hours each year.

Agents target specific work, not a general chatbot

GoDaddy has deployed seven custom chat agents for dashboard navigation, analytical help, domain auctions, account growth, customer experience and product management. The company recorded 1,999 agent queries in April 2026 and estimates those agents save about 6,000 hours annually.

By the end of 2025, GoDaddy reported more than 4,298 active users, 2,532 dashboards and 229 production topics. It estimates more than 7,900 annual hours saved from Quick automation, separate from a broader estimate of more than 15,000 hours saved across the full transformation.

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  1. aws.amazon.comHow GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick | Amazon Web Services