AWS quick documentation change
Summary
Updated subscription management documentation to reflect per-user subscriptions and group-based role assignment. Replaced Standard/Enterprise edition terminology with Professional/Enterprise subscriptions. Added procedures for upgrading/downgrading users via group membership and clarified feature access changes.
Security assessment
The changes focus on subscription management mechanics and feature mapping without addressing security vulnerabilities. Modifications explain role-based access control through group membership, but this is standard feature documentation rather than a response to security flaws. No evidence of patched vulnerabilities or security incidents exists in the diff.
Diff
diff --git a/quick/latest/userguide/managing-qbs-subscriptions.md b/quick/latest/userguide/managing-qbs-subscriptions.md index 4b14cc4d7..cf8dea68e 100644 --- a//quick/latest/userguide/managing-qbs-subscriptions.md +++ b//quick/latest/userguide/managing-qbs-subscriptions.md @@ -7 +7 @@ -Viewing current subscriptionsPurchase subscriptionsEditing a subscriptionDelete a subscriptionUpgrading your subscription +Viewing current subscriptionsPurchase subscriptionsEditing a subscriptionDelete a subscriptionChanging subscriptions @@ -11 +11 @@ Viewing current subscriptionsPurchase subscriptionsEditing a subscriptionDelete -You can purchase standard user subscriptions to get discounted pricing on Amazon Quick. When you invite additional users to Quick, you're charged for those accounts on a month-by-month basis. If you have Enterprise edition, you have the option to take advantage of pay-per-session pricing for reader accounts. These are users who only view data dashboards, and don't need author or admin access. +You can purchase user subscriptions to get discounted pricing on Amazon Quick. When you invite additional users to Quick, you're charged for those accounts on a month-by-month basis. @@ -31 +31 @@ You can edit an existing set of user subscriptions to change whether it autorene - * Upgrading your Amazon Quick subscription from Standard edition to Enterprise edition + * Upgrading or downgrading user subscriptions @@ -148 +148 @@ In your billing statement, the costs are itemized under the appropriate product -## Upgrading your Amazon Quick subscription from Standard edition to Enterprise edition +## Upgrading or downgrading user subscriptions @@ -150 +150 @@ In your billing statement, the costs are itemized under the appropriate product -You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise edition. In Enterprise edition, Amazon Quick supports the following additional features: +Amazon Quick Professional and Amazon Quick Enterprise are per-user subscriptions that you assign through group membership. To change a user's subscription, you move them between the groups that are mapped to Quick roles. The Reader Pro role corresponds to the Amazon Quick Professional subscription, and the Author Pro role corresponds to the Amazon Quick Enterprise subscription. For more information about how subscriptions map to roles, see [Understanding Amazon Quick subscriptions and roles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/user-types.html). @@ -152 +152 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Reader role with pay-per-session pricing; for more pricing details, see following. +For a full comparison of the capabilities included with each subscription and current per-user pricing, see [Amazon Quick pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/). @@ -154 +154 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Email reports for offline delivery of insights. +### Upgrading from Professional to Enterprise @@ -156 +156 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Larger SPICE datasets with up to 500 million rows per SPICE dataset. +To upgrade a user from the Amazon Quick Professional subscription to the Amazon Quick Enterprise subscription, move the user to a group that is mapped to the Author Pro role. If you use IAM Identity Center or Active Directory, you make this change by updating the user's group membership in your identity provider. For the procedure, see [Changing a user's role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/updating-user-accounts-enterprise.html). @@ -158 +158 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Hourly refresh of SPICE data (using the Amazon Quick console). +Users can also request an upgrade themselves when they encounter a feature or usage limit that requires the Enterprise subscription. Depending on your organization's settings, these requests can process automatically or require administrator approval. For more information, see [User-driven license upgrades](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/user-driven-upgrades.html). @@ -160 +160 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * **ML Insights** to make the most of your data, including the following: +After the change takes effect, the user has immediate access to Enterprise capabilities. Changes to users or groups can take up to five minutes to propagate. @@ -162 +162 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Anomaly detection that can run on billions of rows of data on a schedule. +### Downgrading from Enterprise to Professional @@ -164,60 +164 @@ You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise ed - * Contribution analysis to help you figure out key drivers. - - * One-click forecasting. - - * Customizable natural language narratives that you can use to add business context to a dashboard. - - * SageMaker AI integration. - - * **Embedded analytics** in applications and portals: - - * Embed dashboards with row level security. - - * Namespaces with multitenant support for creating dashboards with embedded analytics. - - * Templates for repeatable dashboard creation and management. - - * Capacity pricing for embedding. - - * **Security and governance** - - * Row-level security. - - * Private virtual private cloud (VPC) support based on Amazon VPC. - - * Folders for organization and sharing. - - * Fine-grained access control over Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, and other AWS services and resources. - - * AWS Lake Formation support. - - * **User authentication and management options** - - * Integration with Microsoft Active Directory with support for Active Directory groups. - - * Group support for user management. - - - - -To see a full comparison of Standard edition with Enterprise edition, see [ Amazon Quick editions](https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/resource-library/editions/). - -When you upgrade your account, your administrators and authors are billed at the Amazon Quick Enterprise edition rates. For pay-per-session pricing, you can add additional users as readers. Before you reprovision existing users as readers, you transfer or delete their resources, and then delete the users from your subscription. - -Users who are in the reader role can view and manipulate shared dashboards, and receive emailed updates. However, readers can't add or change data sources, datasets, analyses, visuals, or administrative settings. Billing for readers is significantly lower in cost than regular user pricing. It's based on 30-minute sessions, and it's capped at a maximum amount per month for each reader. Billing for upgrades is prorated for the month of the upgrade. Upgrades to users are also prorated. If you have an annual subscription to Standard edition, it's converted to Enterprise edition and stays in place for the remaining term. - -###### Warning - -Downgrading from Enterprise edition to Standard edition isn't currently possible due to the enhanced feature set available in Enterprise edition. To perform this downgrade, unsubscribe from Amazon Quick, and then start a new subscription. Also, you can't transfer users or assets between subscriptions. - -Upgrading to Enterprise edition to use Active Directory connectivity isn't supported. This is because of the differences in the user identity mechanisms between Amazon Quick password-based users and existing Active Directory users. However, you can upgrade to Enterprise and still use password-based users. If you want to upgrade and change how users sign in, you can unsubscribe and start a new subscription. - -Use the following procedure to upgrade to Enterprise edition. To perform the upgrade, you need administrative access to Amazon Quick, with security permissions to subscribe. The person performing the upgrade is usually an AWS administrator who is also an Amazon Quick administrator. - -###### To upgrade to enterprise edition - - 1. Open the administrative settings page by clicking on your profile icon at top right. - - 2. At top left, choose **Upgrade now**. - - 3. Be sure that you want to upgrade. +To downgrade a user from the Amazon Quick Enterprise subscription to the Amazon Quick Professional subscription, move the user out of the group that is mapped to the Author Pro role and into a group that is mapped to the Reader Pro role. As with an upgrade, you make this change through your identity provider when you use IAM Identity Center or Active Directory. For the procedure, see [Changing a user's role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/updating-user-accounts-enterprise.html). @@ -227,15 +168 @@ Use the following procedure to upgrade to Enterprise edition. To perform the upg -You can't undo this action. - -Choose **Upgrade** to upgrade. The upgrade is instantaneous. - -Billing for the upgrade to your subscription is prorated for the month of upgrade. Upgrades to Amazon Quick users are also prorated. - - 4. (Optional) Downgrade users to readers: - - * Before you start, make sure to transfer any assets your users own that you want to keep. - - * Delete the users and add them back to your subscription as readers. - -If you're using Active Directory, delete the authors, move them to the new reader group, then recreate them as readers in Amazon Quick. - -When you upgrade to Enterprise edition, your admin and author users retain their roles. +If a user belongs to multiple groups that are mapped to different roles, they keep the subscription that grants the broadest level of access. To complete a downgrade, remove the user from every group that is mapped to the Author Pro role. @@ -242,0 +170 @@ When you upgrade to Enterprise edition, your admin and author users retain their +After you downgrade a user, they lose access to the capabilities included only with the Amazon Quick Enterprise subscription. Before you downgrade, make sure any assets the user owns that you want to keep are transferred to another user. Changes to users or groups can take up to five minutes to propagate. @@ -243,0 +172 @@ When you upgrade to Enterprise edition, your admin and author users retain their +###### Note @@ -244,0 +174 @@ When you upgrade to Enterprise edition, your admin and author users retain their +For questions about billing adjustments or refunds related to a subscription change, contact [AWS Support](https://aws.amazon.com//contact-us/).