We have purchased 35 GB of SPICE capacity for our AWS account in the us-west-2 region. I’m experiencing an issue where SPICE capacity appears not to be released after deleting a dataset. Steps taken: Created a SPICE dataset using a custom SQL query SPICE capacity usage increased from 33 GB to…

Hi @chanjuas and welcome to the Quick Community! Please review the attached post as it provides some items to verify: [image] quicksight spice Capacity not released I have deleted the data set, but I can still see the deleted data set in spice, and the capacity is not released. …

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QuickSight dataset deleted but SPICE space is not released

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Brett November 21, 2025, 4:36pm 2

Hi @chanjuas and welcome to the Quick Community!
Please review the attached post as it provides some items to verify:

If this does not help further with your case, I would suggest creating a support ticket to get more direct assistance:

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QuickSight dataset deleted but SPICE space is not released

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