What is Polaris
Polaris Data Analytics, or Polaris for short, is an AI data analyst. You ask a question in plain language. Polaris finds the right tables, writes SQL, runs it against your database, and answers with text, tables and charts. You can collect results into stories, share them with your team, and keep them up to date on a schedule.
How Polaris answers a question
Section titled “How Polaris answers a question”- It reads the project context. Each Polaris project has a folder of context: rules written by your team, documentation for every table, optional business docs, and a semantic layer. The agent reads this context before it writes SQL.
- It queries the data. The agent runs read-only SQL against the project’s databases and pages through the results.
- It shows the result. The agent explains what it found, and it can draw a chart, build a table or write a story.
- It suggests next steps. After most answers, Polaris offers one to three follow-up questions.
When a question is ambiguous, Polaris asks you to clarify before it runs anything.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”| Task | Where to read more |
|---|---|
| Ask questions and refine them with follow-ups | Chats |
| Look at SQL, export results, and edit charts | Charts and tables |
| Build reports that refresh themselves | Stories |
| Let Polaris remember your preferences | Memory |
| Look things up on the public web | Web search and fetch |
| Attach files such as CSV, Excel or PDF | File attachments |
| Share chats and stories, and rate answers | Sharing and feedback |
| Ask Polaris in Slack | Slack |
| Use Polaris from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex | MCP access |
Who maintains what
Section titled “Who maintains what”- Users chat, build stories and share results.
- Context owners maintain the project folder:
RULES.md, table docs, skills and tests. See Project context. - Admins add users, choose models, and watch usage and costs. See Administration.
Where Polaris runs
Section titled “Where Polaris runs”Polaris runs on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and uses Claude models on Amazon Bedrock. Read the platform overview for a short description.