AWS Announces Pay-per-Session Pricing for Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is the first business analytics service to offer pay-per-session pricing, making it even more cost-effective for organizations to allow all users access to analytics
Users can access Amazon QuickSight dashboards for just $0.30 per session
Rio Tinto, NFL, Siemens, Volvo, and AutoTrader are among the many customers deploying Amazon QuickSight with pay-per-session pricing
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2018-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced pay-per-session pricing for Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business analytics service that makes it easy for all users within an organization-regardless of their technical skill-to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data. With pay-per-session pricing, any user can have read-only access to interactive, data driven dashboards in Amazon QuickSight and pay only when they've accessed these dashboards. This makes Amazon QuickSight an even more cost-effective way for customers to make personalized business analytics available to everyone, whether they have tens, hundreds, or thousands of users. Pay-per-session pricing for Amazon QuickSight dashboards starts at $0.30 per session up to a maximum of $5 per user, per month, and is available in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition in all supported AWS regions. With pay-per-session pricing there are no upfront costs, no annual commitments, and no charges for inactive users. To get started with Amazon QuickSight, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/QuickSight.
The volume of data that businesses create and process is growing every day. To get the most value from this data, organizations need to make it easy and inexpensive for all users, regardless of technical skill, to access, explore, and use data to derive insights that drive well-informed business decisions. However, the cost and complexity of traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions prohibit most organizations from making analytics ubiquitous. Licensing terms of traditional BI solutions force customers to forecast how many users will need access to the BI system, and to predict the expected access patterns of those users. For customers with tens of thousands of users that have a mix of access patterns (e.g. some need to use the system daily, while others may only need to view reports and dashboards once a month), this leads to either over-provisioning and paying for access they don't use, or under-provisioning and preventing many users from accessing insights at all. Smaller organizations with tens or hundreds of users lack the scale to justify the large upfront costs of traditional BI licenses. And, while some solutions offer monthly or annual subscriptions, these still require customers to pay full price even for infrequent users.
With the pay-per session pricing from Amazon QuickSight, organizations can give everyone the ability to interact with Amazon QuickSight dashboards and pay only for actual usage of Amazon QuickSight. Because each session is a 30-minute window priced at $0.30, infrequent users only pay for the access they need. Additionally, the $5 per user maximum on monthly charges allows more frequent users to view dashboards as needed, while still allowing organizations to easily predict their maximum spend, giving them the peace of mind that they will not pay too much during unexpected usage spikes. For users that need to do more with Amazon QuickSight, including performing ad-hoc analysis, creating visualizations, and publishing dashboards, full authoring capabilities within Amazon QuickSight are available starting at $9 per user, per month.
With highly scalable object storage in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), data warehousing at one-tenth the cost of traditional solutions in Amazon Redshift, and serverless analytics offered by Amazon Athena, customers are moving data into AWS at an unprecedented pace, said Dorothy Nicholls, Vice President of Amazon QuickSight at Amazon Web Services, Inc. Whats changed is that virtually all knowledge workers want easy access to that data and the insights that can be derived. Its been cost-prohibitive to enable that access for entire companies until the Amazon QuickSight pay-per-session pricing-- this is a game-changer in terms of information and analytics access.
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining group that focuses on finding, mining, and processing the Earths mineral resources. At Rio Tinto, safety is paramount, and we want to empower everyone to make decisions with the best data available. Amazon QuickSight allows our analysts to create insightful dashboards quickly for our critical risk management programme, enabling us to move from static spreadsheets to interactive data. However, rolling out these dashboards at scale to the field was going to be costly and complicated, said Anthony Deakin, Chief Advisor - Critical Risk Management at Rio Tinto. We asked AWS for a better solution, and they listened. Readers in Amazon QuickSight, with pay-per-session pricing, will help us scale the dashboards to more end-users across the world and only pay for what we use.
The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, and the most popular sports league in the United States. Through the use of technology and our Next Gen Stats platform we have been gathering a large amount of data, leading to new metrics and insights. Along the way we have been looking for ways to best visualize and provide access to those data insights, but what is important to us is to provide our Clubs a secure and easy way to access this information, said Matt Swensson, Vice President, Emerging Products and Technology at the NFL. Amazon
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AWS Announces Pay-per-Session Pricing for Amazon QuickSight 
