Reduce Amazon QuickSight costs with these tips

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Amazon QuickSight cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon QuickSight costs with these tips

Right-Size Resources

Analyze usage patterns to adjust QuickSight resources like users and data volume according to your needs. This helps to avoid unnecessary costs.

Use Reserved Capacity

For predictable workloads, consider QuickSight's reserved capacity. Despite requiring a 1 or 3 year commitment, it offers significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing.

Integrate with AWS S3

For temporary data storage needs, integrate QuickSight with AWS S3. This allows better resource allocation and helps minimize QuickSight costs over time.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon QuickSight

About Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable BI service enabling users to create and share dashboards. It uses a calculation engine 'SPICE', and supports data import from multiple sources, with built-in security. Available globally across AWS regions, it supports multiple languages and has a mobile app and API options. Features include interactive dashboards and custom-branded email reporting, additionally offering machine learning for data insights.

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Amazon QuickSight pricing

Amazon QuickSight pricing tiers include: Author Pro ($50/mo), for Generative BI; Author ($24 or $18/mo for annual commitment) for data connectivity, dashboard creation and sharing; Reader Pro ($20/mo) and Reader ($0.30/session, up to $5-$10/mo) for dashboard interaction, emails reports and data downloads. Capacity pricing starts at $250/mo for 500 sessions, scaling up to $258k/year for over 3 million sessions. Extra features like paginated reports and QuickSight Embedded are also available.

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