Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase Reader sessions or Amazon Q question capacity in bulk at discounted rates, without having to provision individual users in QuickSight. Capacity pricing is ideal for embedded applications or large-scale BI deployments.  With Capacity pricing, the per-session costs decrease with commitments to larger usage.

Capacity pricing is beneficial when QuickSight dashboards need to be displayed to a large audience with dispersed usage, or in situations where the user population is expected to continually grow. In both cases, the discounts on per-session pricing available with Capacity pricing allow reduction in QuickSight costs over time. Each session within session Capacity pricing is 30 minutes long. Session Capacity pricing also allows use of QuickSight for programmatic access for display on large screens/monitors for consumption by multiple end users.

A Reader session is a 30-minute interval of time during which a QuickSight Reader can access dashboards and interact with data when subscribed to Capacity pricing. A Reader session starts with user-initiated action (for example, login, dashboard load, page refresh, drill-down, or filtering) and runs for the next 30 minutes. Keeping QuickSight open in a background browser window/tab does not result in active sessions until the Reader initiates action on page.

No, QuickSight being open in a background tab will not result in usage charges. A session is only initiated when there is explicit Reader activity on the QuickSight web application. If QuickSight is moved to the background or minimized, there will be no additional sessions charged until the Reader interacts with QuickSight again.

No, sessions are transparent to the end user. Sessions will be renewed in 30-minute intervals and time out 30 minutes after start upon inactivity. In case of embedded sessions, the host application will be responsible for renewing sessions based on setup.

QuickSight Reader user pricing applies to interactive consumption of data by individual users only — for both manual and programmatic access. For sharing of dashboards with multiple end users who are not registered in QuickSight, such as in an embedding scenario, use capacity pricing. See Service Term 40.4.

 

For scripted refresh of QuickSight dashboards intended for monitors or large screens that continuously display data, we recommend use of an Author account. QuickSight Reader user pricing applies to interactive consumption of data by individual end users in an organization. Reader sessions under capacity pricing are designed to be used in 30-minute intervals. A fair use policy applies, and any abuse of the system will result in the Reader being metered as an Author.

Each Report Unit constitutes up to 100 pages (for paginated output types like PDF, Word, or PowerPoint) or 100 MB (for non-paginated output types like Excel or CSV). Examples:

1.a Report X generated 550 pages; this would be counted as 6 reports [roundup(550/100)]

1.b Report Y generated 1 GB CSV file; this would be counted as 10 reports [roundup(1GB/100MB)]

A Unique Report is defined as the number of Reports that are generated, taking into account Row Level, Column Level Security, and Dynamic Default Parameters. Example: If Reader 1 and Reader 2 share the same Row Level security, only 1 Report will be generated for both Readers.

No, there is no free tier option.

Yes, Reporting is available as an add-on to the Enterprise Edition only.

No, the Monthly and Annual prices listed are per Account, independent of the number of Regions the feature is used in.

In a given month, if the number of unique report units exceed the included number, then each additional report unit will be charged per unit.

No, Author and Reader pricing are not affected.

Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.

Billing and the number of report units will be prorated, starting with the hour that you sign up to the end of the month.

For Monthly plans, the subscription will remain active until the end of the month and you are billed until then. For Annual plans, the subscription will remain active until the end of the annual plan and you are billed until then.

Yes, Authors can be upgraded to Author Pro and Readers to Reader Pro or Author Pro at any time.

Yes, you can downgrade Author Pro to Author or Reader Pro to Reader at any time. Please note that monthly charge for the Pro versions will be charged for the full month.

No. You cannot downgrade an Author Pro to a Reader or Reader Pro. As an alternative, you can delete and re-add users in different roles at any time.

The annual commitment plan will automatically be applied to month-to-month billed Authors when the annual commitment plan billing period begins.