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Discover how to cut your AWS QuickSight costs in half!

Santiago González
3 min readNov 19, 2024

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AWS Quicksight costs example

A comprehensive guide to pricing and user types

Amazon Web Services (AWS) QuickSight represents Amazon’s entry into the Business Intelligence (BI) market, offering data visualization and analytics capabilities in the cloud. This article explores QuickSight’s pricing structure and user management system to help organizations make informed decisions about their BI implementation.

Editions available

QuickSight comes in two distinct editions: Standard and Enterprise, each designed to meet different organizational needs.

The Standard Edition implements a pay-per-session model. Users are charged only when they actively access QuickSight dashboards, with sessions priced at $0.30 for up to 30 minutes. This pricing is capped at $3.00 per user monthly, making it particularly suitable for organizations with intermittent dashboard usage patterns.

The Enterprise Edition follows a monthly subscription structure, with differentiated pricing for different user roles:

  • Authors and Administrators: $24 per user monthly
  • Readers: $8 per user monthly

This edition includes additional security features such as encryption at rest and row-level security…

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