As per the article it says that, The embedded dashboard opened for 30 min will be considered a session. What if user refresh the page multiple times in span of 30 min. Will it create different embed URLs each time.? Will it consider the session as multiple sessions (equal to number of refreshes)

Hi @yogendrasgautam - You can embed dashboards for registered users or anonymous users. For registered user, the session lasts for 30 min. If you refresh the page multiple times in a span of 30 min, it is still considered a single session. Please note that embed url is generated by the host appli…

Hi @yogendrasgautam To my understanding refreshes are not considered another session. You can confirm by looking into the api on your network tab / if you have logging.

Thanks @debapc for posting this solution, and welcome to the Quick Sight Community! :slight_smile:

Hi, I have one Quick Sight user to build the dashboard. Can I embed dashboards for registered users for my internal website with User based pricing? The website can be accessed by employees in the company. Is that okay when use only one Quick Sight account for the internal website?

Hi @xoapit - welcome to the Quick Sight community! Thanks for your question. Yes, you can embed dashboards for registered users with user based pricing. Here is the documentation on Embedding dashboards for registered users . User based pricing is $0.30/session with $5 max/user/month. Please refer…

Yes, I know I can call that API. But is that ok if I use only 1 Quick Sight user to generate the embed URL and use it to load in the web application used by many internal users?

Hi @xoapit - there are 3 principals we are talking about: Author, who will create the analysis and dashboard. It can be 1 Quick Sight user as per your requirement IAM Role that is assumed by your application to generate the embed URL. Please refer to Step 1: Set up permissions Readers, thes…

Yes, I know. I created 1 QS user and created an API and passed 1 userArn from that user to QS API to generate the URL. When calling the API from our application API, I always use only 1 userArn but that API serves many application users in the internal web application. I want to know whether if havi…

Hi @xoapit - you need to use user-specific ARNs. You shouldn’t be using single ARN for all the users.

Why shouldn’t? Are there any problems with that?

Clarification on Quicksight Session Capacity Pricing for anonymous embedding

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Hi @xoapit - This is in violation with Quick Sight licensing terms. There are internal mechanisms built-in to track the violations.

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