How billable sessions are counted in capacity pricing model when embedding?

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I have a trouble understanding how billable sessions are counted in capacity pricing model.

According to https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/capacity-pricing/ A session is a 30-minute period.

Now when creating embedded URL withGenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser the session validity is up to 10hrs (10hrs by default). And here go a question: How this emedding session is billed in case the user is not actually using it for the whole 10hrs?

In particular:

  • Is this session billed as 20 billable sessions (20 x 30 min) regardles of how long it’s actually used? (I hope not).

  • (Assuming the answer to the above is negtive) Let’s assume a user interacts with the dashboard for less than 30min right after creating emedded URL and then goes away from the keyboard (but leave their browser with the dashboard open, just locks their PC), and then they get back after 1 hr and start using the same dashboard they left open for another less than 30min. What will be the bill for this sceanrio? Is it going to be billed as 2 billable sessions (2 x 30min)? Or is that 1hr of inactivity also going to be billed as additional 2 billable sessions (i.e. the whole scenario will be billed as 4 billable sessions)?

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Hello Piotr,

First of all welcome to the QuickSight community.

If i am not mistaken, the answer to your questions 2 sessions.
Sessions are automatically released after:

  • User closes the application.
  • 30 minutes of inactivity.
  • Browser session ends.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Deep

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Hi @pwalesiak and welcome to the QuickSight community!
To my understanding, capacity pricing works in the following way:

  • It will only register time that is actually used.
  • But this would be per user/session. So if one user registers 10 minutes of usage time, and another uses it for 20 minutes, it will still register as 30 minutes for each user as that is the lowest time interval.
  • If one user uses utilizing longer than 30 minutes, it will count as 2 sessions.