Changes / BI & analytics / Amazon QuickSight
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Free Quick Enterprise access for Quick Sight Authors ends December 31, 2026
Quick Sight Authors' promotional access to all Quick Enterprise capabilities is time-limited and runs until December 31, 2026.
Who’s affected
QuickSight Authors in regions where the new Quick capabilities are available, who are using the promotional access to all Quick Enterprise capabilities. Anyone who built dashboards or workflows that depend on those Enterprise features needs to check what happens after the promotion ends.
Not affected: Teams outside regions where the new Quick capabilities are available, and teams that already pay for Quick Enterprise or never used the promotional features.
What it costs
The record gives no prices. Authors lose free Enterprise capabilities after December 31, 2026, so keeping them would likely mean paying for Quick Enterprise, or dropping the features that depend on it.
When to act
About 60 days gives time to inventory which Enterprise features Authors use, get a quote and decide whether to pay or scale back before access ends on December 31, 2026.
Blast radius: Dashboards, analyses or workflows that use Quick Enterprise capabilities may lose that functionality or become unavailable to Authors after the promotion ends. Which specific features are affected is not stated in the record, so verify with AWS.
What should you do? decision tree
- you are not in a region where the new Quick capabilities are available or have never used the promotional accessDo nothing beyond confirming your Authors' current entitlements.
- authors use Quick Enterprise capabilities that you cannot identifyInventory which assets and features rely on them, and ask your AWS account team to confirm what changes after December 31, 2026.
- the Enterprise features are business-criticalGet a list quote for Quick Enterprise and budget for it before the end date, and ask about negotiated pricing.
- the features are nice-to-haveRemove dependencies on them from dashboards and workflows before the promotion ends.
- cost is unacceptable and the dependencies run deepEvaluate whether another BI tool fits your needs better.
Options
- WaitIf no one depends on the promotional Enterprise features, let the promotion lapse and change nothing.
- OptimizeAudit Author usage and strip dependencies on Enterprise-only features before December 31, 2026.
- NegotiateAsk your AWS rep for Quick Enterprise pricing for your Authors, since list is not negotiated, and confirm what happens to existing assets.
- UpgradeMove the Authors who need the Enterprise capabilities to paid Quick Enterprise before the promotion ends.
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