Amazon Verified Permissions Pricing

You have 1 million active application users, each of whom accesses 40 photos per month. Each time one of these users attempts to access a photo, your application calls Verified Permissions to check if they are authorized to do so. Therefore, your application makes 40 million authorization requests per month. Additionally, 30% of your users (300,000 users) view 10 policies every month, and 10% of your users (100,000 users) update two policies every month. Your charges would be calculated as follows:

A company with 5,000 employees is using Verified Permissions for authorization. The company has enabled authorization in five of their internal applications (e.g. sales management portal, code repo, employee information processor) that are used by by employees for day-to-day tasks. Each employee, on an average, takes 100 actions in each of the five applications on all working days. Assuming 20 working days each month, each employee takes a total of 10,000 actions each month. The company authorizes each actions using Verified Permissions which results in 50M authorization requests per month. Additionally, the company also updates permissions as employees join or leave. They manage authorization policies on an average 50 times per month per employee . Therefore, in total 250,000 policy management requests are made to Verified Permissions.  

A popular chain restaurant operating in 3,000 locations uses Verified Permissions for authorization in their order management system. On average, each location received 300 orders every day, and each order requires 3 actions (place order, view order, complete order) to fulfill (900 requests per day per store). As a result, the application makes 27,000 authorization requests every month per store and overall makes 81M authorization requests across all stores. Your charges would be calculated as follows:  

An order fulfillment application in a warehouse uses Amazon Verified Permissions for authorization. The application is used by 1,000 employees working in the United Kingdom (UK). They use the application to view order details, mark the order as shipped, and list orders. On average, an employee processes 500 orders everyday, and therefore visits the order detail page 500 times and marks 500 orders as shipped. Additionally, an employee lists orders 200 times in a day.

The application calls the Verified Permissions API IsAuthorized once to authorize “view order” and “updating an order to shipped”. Therefore, the application makes 1000 IsAuthorized API calls per employee in a day. Additionally, the application makes a single API request to BatchIsAuthorized when this employee lists orders. The single batch API call, gets authorization decisions to view each order in the list. Therefore, the application makes 200 BatchIsAuthorized API calls per employee in a day. In total, the application makes 1,200 authorization requests per employee in a day (1000 IsAuthorized calls and 200 BatchIsAuthorized calls). Assuming 30 workdays in a month, the monthly charges are calculated as follows:

Authorization requests per employee per day: 1,200
Authorization requests per employee per month: 1,200 * 30 days = 36,000
Authorization requests per month (total): 36,000 * 1,000 employees = 36,000,000

Your application uses Amazon Verified Permissions for permissions management. Every month, it calls the IsAuthorized API 150 million times and BatchIsAuthorized 50 million times. As a result, it performs 200 million authorization requests. Additionally, there are 10 million policy management actions every month. Your charges would be calculated as follows: