No standard edition option available

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I’m trying to sign up for Quicksight but I don’t see the Standard option anywhere, this is what I get:

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If I click on Sign up I’m presented with a settings screen which also has no mention of Standard edition. If I continue I get Enterprise edition by default.

2

Hey @Michiel_G ,

welcome to the QuickSight Community :partying_face: !

It seems like the Standard Subscription is only available through the API:
Business Intelligence Service – Amazon QuickSight Pricing – AWS
If you want to use the CLI - this is pretty helpfull: create-account-subscription — AWS CLI 1.33.26 Command Reference (amazon.com) through the SDK it would be this one: create_account_subscription - Boto3 1.34.144 documentation (amazonaws.com)

I never created a standard QuickSight account but I thought you could create one when trying to subscribe. Apparently that is not the case.

Hopefully this can help you.

BR

Robert

3

Hey @robert.eibers

That indeed works, I was able to create a Standard edition account. These are the steps:

  1. Create a JSON file named create_standard_account.json with the details:
{
    "AwsAccountId": "5XXXXXXXXX8",
    "AccountName": "desired_quicksight_account_name",
    "AuthenticationMethod": "IAM_AND_QUICKSIGHT",
    "Edition": "STANDARD",
    "NotificationEmail": "your_email@email.com"
}
  1. Use this cli command to create the account:

aws quicksight create-account-subscription --cli-input-json file://your_file_path/create_standard_account.json --region eu-central-1