# Managing Quick subscriptions
Subscription management in Amazon Quick involves configuring and optimizing your service usage to meet your organization's needs while controlling costs. This section covers essential subscription-related tasks including upgrading or downgrading your Quick edition, managing SPICE memory capacity to ensure optimal performance for your in-memory datasets, and configuring data capacity limits for unstructured data storage. Proper subscription management helps you balance performance, functionality, and cost while ensuring your users have the resources they need to create and share insights effectively.
**Topics**
+ [Configure Amazon Quick subscriptions](managing-qbs-subscriptions.md)
+ [Configure SPICE memory capacity](managing-spice-capacity.md)
+ [Index capacity](manage-data-capacity.md)
# Configure Amazon Quick subscriptions
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.
To understand how Amazon Quick subscription names on the pricing page map to user roles in the admin console, see [Understanding Amazon Quick subscriptions and roles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/user-types.html).
When you purchase an annual subscription, you pay for a Quick user account on an annual rather than monthly basis. With an annual subscription, you receive a discounted price in return for the extended time commitment. You don't need to purchase an annual subscription to create or add users.
When you purchase a set of standard user subscriptions, you choose the number of accounts you want to cover. You also choose when to start the subscriptions (any time from the month following the current month, to one year in the future) and whether to autorenew them. All subscriptions that you purchase together must use the same values for these settings.
You can edit an existing set of user subscriptions to change whether it autorenews. If the set is not yet active, you can also change the number of subscriptions it covers, or delete it entirely.
**Topics**
+ [Viewing current subscriptions](#view-subscriptions)
+ [Purchase subscriptions](#buy-subscriptions)
+ [Editing a subscription](#edit-subscriptions)
+ [Delete a subscription](#delete-subscriptions)
+ [Upgrading your Amazon Quick subscription from Standard edition to Enterprise edition](#upgrading-subscription)
## Viewing current subscriptions
Use the following procedure to view your current user subscriptions.
**To view your current user subscriptions**
1. Choose your user name on the application bar and then choose **Manage Quick**.
1. Choose **Manage pricing**.
1. Use the subscription meter to see how many accounts you have and how they are billed. In the following example, the account has 21 users total:
+ Seven users with annual subscriptions. Only currently active subscriptions are shown here.
+ 13 month-to-month users.
Pause over any section of the meter bar to display details about that user segment.
1. Use the information in the subscriptions table to see what current and future subscriptions you have.
## Purchase subscriptions
Use the following procedure to purchase subscriptions.
**To purchase subscriptions**
1. Choose your user name on the application bar and then choose **Manage Quick**.
1. Choose **Manage pricing**.
1. Navigate to the **Authors and Admins** section, and then choose **Purchase plan**.
1. Choose or enter the number of subscriptions you want.
1. Choose the month and year when the subscriptions will start.
1. Choose whether the subscriptions autorenew.
1. Choose **Purchase**.
## Editing a subscription
Use the following procedure to edit subscriptions.
**To edit subscriptions**
1. Choose your user name on the application bar and then choose **Manage Quick**.
1. Choose **Manage pricing**.
1. Next to the set of subscriptions you want to change, choose **Manage**.
1. (Optional) If the subscriptions haven't started yet, change the number of subscriptions.
1. Choose whether the subscriptions autorenew.
1. Choose **Save changes**.
## Delete a subscription
**Warning**
Deleting Amazon Quick subscriptions affects user access. When you delete subscriptions:
Users covered by deleted subscriptions may lose access to Quick features and content
Subscription changes affect your entire organization's access to Quick capabilities
Deleted subscriptions cannot be recovered - you must purchase new subscriptions to restore access
**Before proceeding:** Verify that affected users have alternative access methods and understand the implications of subscription changes.
Use the following procedure to delete subscriptions. You can only delete subscriptions that haven't started yet.
**To delete subscriptions**
1. Choose your user name on the application bar and then choose **Manage Quick**.
1. Choose **Manage pricing**.
1. Next to the set of subscriptions that you want to delete, choose **Edit**.
1. Choose **Delete Subscription**.
**Note**
If you use AWS Key Management Service or AWS Secrets Manager with Amazon Quick, you are billed for access and maintenance as described in the pricing pages for each AWS product. For more information on how these products are billed, see the following:
[AWS Key Management Service Pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/kms/pricing)
[AWS Secrets Manager Pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing)
In your billing statement, the costs are itemized under the appropriate product and not under Amazon Quick.
## Upgrading your Amazon Quick subscription from Standard edition to Enterprise edition
You can upgrade from Amazon Quick Standard edition to Amazon Quick Enterprise edition. In Enterprise edition, Amazon Quick supports the following additional features:
+ Reader role with pay-per-session pricing; for more pricing details, see following.
+ Email reports for offline delivery of insights.
+ Larger SPICE datasets with up to 500 million rows per SPICE dataset.
+ Hourly refresh of SPICE data (using the Amazon Quick console).
+ **ML Insights** to make the most of your data, including the following:
+ Anomaly detection that can run on billions of rows of data on a schedule.
+ 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.
1. At top left, choose **Upgrade now**.
1. Be sure that you want to upgrade.
**Important**
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.
1. (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.
# Configure SPICE memory capacity
*SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine)* is the robust in-memory engine that Amazon Quick uses. It's engineered to rapidly perform advanced calculations and serve data. In Enterprise edition, data stored in SPICE is encrypted at rest. For more information, see [Data encryption in Quick](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/data-encryption.html).
SPICE capacity is allocated separately per AWS Region. For each AWS account, SPICE capacity is shared by all the people using Quick in a single AWS Region. The other AWS Regions have no SPICE capacity unless you choose to purchase some.
Quick administrators can view how much [SPICE](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/spice.html) capacity you have in each AWS Region and how much of it is currently in use. Administrators can also purchase additional SPICE capacity or release unused SPICE capacity. You can only release SPICE capacity that isn't currently used by a dataset. Datasets in SPICE stay there until someone remove them from SPICE. To change that, you can either delete the datasets or change them so they aren't stored in SPICE.
Purchasing or releasing SPICE capacity only affects the capacity for the currently selected AWS Region. Each AWS account can have a separate Amazon Quick subscription and can be used in multiple AWS Regions.
Before you make any changes to SPICE capacity, make sure that you're using the correct AWS account and AWS Region. It's possible to be using different AWS accounts or AWS Regions at the same time in different contexts, as follows:
+ If you open Amazon Quick using the `http://quicksight.aws.amazon.com` URL, Amazon Quick automatically selects your account and AWS Region. You can't view your AWS account from Amazon Quick. We recommend using a different method to open Amazon Quick when you want to work with SPICE capacity.
+ If you open Amazon Quick from the AWS Management Console, Amazon Quick opens in the account that you used to sign in to that console. However, it opens in the last AWS Region that you selected in Amazon Quick. The AWS Management Console and the Amazon Quick console each have an AWS Region selector that works independently from the other. Changing the selected AWS Region in the AWS console doesn't change the AWS Region in Amazon Quick.
+ If you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to run Amazon Quick commands, make sure to provide the relevant AWS account for each Amazon Quick API operation you use. The AWS Region isn't always required, and if you don't provide it, the AWS CLI uses your default AWS Region from your AWS configuration. We recommend that you always explicitly provide the AWS Region, to make sure you apply the command to the correct AWS Region.
You must be signed in as a Amazon Quick administrator to view or manage SPICE capacity.
**Topics**
+ [Finding your current AWS account and AWS Region](#current-aws-account-and-default-aws-region)
+ [Viewing SPICE capacity and usage in an AWS Region](#spice-current-capacity-and-usage)
+ [Hiding SPICE capacity labels](#spice-capacity-hide)
+ [Purchasing SPICE capacity in an AWS Region](#spice-capacity-purchasing)
+ [Turning on SPICE auto capacity purchasing](#spice-auto-capacity)
+ [Releasing SPICE capacity in an AWS Region](#spice-capacity-releasing)
## Finding your current AWS account and AWS Region
**To select the correct AWS account and AWS Region (console)**
1. Open the AWS console, using the AWS account that you want to view SPICE information for. If you have only one AWS account, you can skip this step.
You can verify the account number by following these steps:
1. On the navigation bar at the top of the page, choose the account name or number at right. If a number displays, this might be your AWS account ID.
1. Choose **My Security Credentials** to display your credential-related information and options. Your AWS account ID displays near the top of the page.
To return to the original page, choose the AWS logo at upper left.
1. Open Amazon Quick by first entering "**quicksight**" into the **Find Services** search box. When the word Amazon Quick appears following the search box, choose it from the list.
1. In Amazon Quick, open the profile menu by choosing your profile icon at top right. The AWS name of the AWS Region that Amazon Quick is using displays in the menu.
The same AWS Region also displays in the URL, for example: `https://us-east-1.quicksight.aws.amazon.com/sn/admin`. If this is your URL, the profile menu displays the name N. Virginia.
To switch AWS Regions, display the list of supported Regions by choosing the Region name from the profile menu. Then choose the Region that you want to use. Switching to a different AWS Region changes the SPICE usage information that you can view. It also changes the Amazon Quick assets that you can use, for example data sources and dashboards.
## Viewing SPICE capacity and usage in an AWS Region
**To view current SPICE capacity and usage (console)**
1. Open Amazon Quick. Make sure that you're using the correct AWS account and AWS Region as described previously in [Finding your current AWS account and AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/current-aws-account-and-default-aws-region.html).
1. Open the administration page by choosing **Manage Quick** from your profile menu.
1. Choose **SPICE capacity** from the left navigation pane . The following information displays:
+ The **Total SPICE capacity** section displays the total amount of used and unused SPICE capacity. A bar graph shows how much of this storage space is in each of the following categories for this AWS account in the AWS Region that's currently selected in Amazon Quick:
+ Purchased SPICE capacity – This is the additional SPICE capacity.
+ SPICE capacity bundled with Amazon Quick – This is the total default capacity associated with your paid users.
Hover over any section of the meter to see details on that capacity type.
+ The **SPICE usage** section displays the total amount of the used and unused SPICE capacity. A bar graph shows how much of this storage space is in each of the following categories for this AWS account in the AWS Region that's currently selected in Amazon Quick:
+ Used SPICE capacity – This is the used portion of the default SPICE capacity that you get for each user.
+ Unused SPICE capacity – This is the unused portion of the default SPICE capacity that you get for each user.
+ Releasable unused capacity – This is the purchased capacity that isn't in use, and so can be released to reduce costs.
## Hiding SPICE capacity labels
Amazon Quick account admins can choose to hide the account-wide SPICE capacity usage and remaining size labels from Amazon Quick authors. This feature is available to all enterprise accounts that use custom permissions. For more information about custom permissions in Amazon Quick, see [Customizing access to Amazon Quick capabilities](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/customizing-permissions-to-the-quicksight-console.html)
Use the following procedure to hide SPICE capacity usage from the Amazon Quick console.
1. Open the [Quick console](https://quicksight.aws.amazon.com/).
1. From any page in the Amazon Quick console, choose your profile name, and then choose **Manage Quick**.
The **Manage Quick** menu is only available to Amazon Quick admins. If you are unable to acces this menu, contact your Amazon Quick account admin for assistance.
1. Choose **Manage users**, and then choose **Manage permissions**.
1. Edit or create a new custom permission. For **Restrict access to**, under **Datasets**, select **Viewing account SPICE capacity**.
1. When you are finished creating or changing the custom permission, chose **Create** or **Update**.
After you create or update a custom permission to hide SPICE capacity usage, assign the new permission to users with the `UpdateUser` API.
## Purchasing SPICE capacity in an AWS Region
**To purchase more SPICE capacity (console)**
1. Open Amazon Quick. Make sure that you're using the correct AWS account and AWS Region as described previously in [Finding your current AWS account and AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/current-aws-account-and-default-aws-region.html).
1. Open the administration page by choosing **Manage Quick** from your profile menu.
1. Choose **SPICE capacity** from the left navigation pane .
1. Choose the **Purchase more capacity** button.
1. Enter a number of gigabytes of SPICE capacity to purchase for the AWS Region that is currently selected in Amazon Quick.
1. To confirm your choice, choose **Purchase SPICE capacity**. To exit without making any changes, choose **Cancel**.
## Turning on SPICE auto capacity purchasing
Turn on SPICE auto capacity purchasing to allow Amazon Quick to automatically manage your Amazon Quick account's SPICE capacity. When you turn auto capacity purchasing on, Amazon Quick evaluates how much capacity is needed based on your account's usage. As your account uses more SPICE storage, Amazon Quick automatically purchases SPICE capacity as needed on your behalf. This allows users to ingest data as needed without the need to estimate usage or manually purchase SPICE data. Auto capacity purchasing makes it easier for new customers, ISVs, and larger companies to directly access SPICE without needing to understand, track, or manually purchase their account's SPICE capacity. Amazon Quick admins can still purchase and release SPICE capacity manually.
Auto capacity purchasing doesn't support auto-decrement. If users want to reduce their SPICE usage, capacity release must be done manually.
By default, all new Amazon Quick accounts that are created in the Amazon Quick console have auto capacity purchasing turned on in the region that their capacity is located. To turn on auto capacity purchasing for other regions, Amazon Quick account admins can manually turn on auto capacity from the **SPICE capacity** management page.
By default, all new Amazon Quick accounts that were created with the Amazon Quick API and all existing Amazon Quick accounts have auto capacity purchasing turned off. To turn on auto capacity purchasing, Amazon Quick account admins can manually turn on auto capacity from the **SPICE capacity** management page.
**To turn SPICE capacity purchasing on or off**
1. Open the [Quick console](https://quicksight.aws.amazon.com/).
1. From any page in the Amazon Quick console, choose your profile name, and then choose **Manage Quick**.
The **Manage Quick** menu is only available to Amazon Quick admins. If you are unable to acces this menu, contact your Amazon Quick account admin for assistance.
1. Choose **SPICE capacity**.
1. On the **SPICE Capacity** page that opens, toggle the **Auto-purchase capacity** on.
To turn auto capacity purchasing off, follow the procedure above and toggle **Auto-purchase capacity** off. When auto purchase capacity is turned off, ingestions or refreshes that exceed the account's SPICE capacity automatically fail.
Amazon Quick admins can turn auto capacity pricing on or off at any time. If you turn auto capacity purchasing off after it's been in use, your account's current capacity becomes your account's purchased capacity. If your account has no remaining capacity when you turn auto purchase off, the next ingestion or refresh will fail.
If your account already exceeds its SPICE capacity when you turn auto capacity purchasing on, Amazon Quick automatically matches your account's capacity to your current usage. After Amazon Quick matches your account's capacity, the auto-purchase logic starts.
## Releasing SPICE capacity in an AWS Region
**To release unused SPICE capacity (console)**
1. Open Amazon Quick. Make sure that you're using the correct AWS account and AWS Region as described previously in [Finding your current AWS account and AWS Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/current-aws-account-and-default-aws-region.html).
1. Open the administration page by choosing **Manage Quick** from your profile menu.
1. Choose **SPICE capacity** from the left navigation pane .
1. Choose **Release unused purchased capacity**.
1. Do one of the following:
+ To release all SPICE capacity from the AWS Region that is currently selected in Amazon Quick, choose **Release all**.
+ To release some of gigabytes of SPICE capacity from the AWS Region that is currently selected in Amazon Quick, enter the number of gigabytes to release.
1. To confirm your choice, choose **Release SPICE capacity**. To exit without making any changes, choose **Cancel**.
# Index capacity
An index is a structured corpus of documents that allows for efficient searching, sorting, and data access. Amazon Quick uses an index to store, prepare, sync any files you upload to your Quick spaces. It then uses this indexed data to generate agent-driven responses during chat conversations.
**Topics**
+ [Storage allocation](#storage-allocation)
+ [Regional allocation](#regional-allocation)
+ [Manual scaling & autoscaling](#manual-scaling-autoscaling)
+ [Total index capacity](#index-data-capacity)
+ [To view index capacity usage](#used-index-data-capacity)
+ [Release unused index capacity](#release-index-data-capacity)
+ [Switch between capacity modes](#switch-capacity-modes)
## Storage allocation
You get index capacity measured as the original file size of documents at their source location (such as SharePoint, S3, Confluence) before any processing by Quick. Quick automatically creates an index when you sign up in your home region with auto-scaling enabled (a mechanism where your index capacity is adjusted automatically based on usage). Your Quick Index storage allocation is based on your user count and subscription tier. **Professional users** get 25 GB of storage per user and **Enterprise users** get 50 GB per user. Overages are billed at \$15 per GB per month. Allocated storage and overages are pooled on a payer account level. This replaces the previously auto-provisioned 50 MB (extracted text) default index capability.
## Regional allocation
Your Quick Index storage allocation is billed as a discount to your home region, the region you selected during your Quick subscription setup. If you provision Quick Index capacity in additional regions beyond your home region, that storage counts as overage and is billed at \$15 per GB per month.
## Manual scaling & autoscaling
You can purchase additional capacity via the Quick console in two ways. First, auto-purchase is enabled by default for all accounts. When your usage approaches your organizational allocation, the system automatically purchases additional capacity in 0.25 GB increments up to a maximum of 2 TB. Second, you can manually purchase capacity from 0.25 GB, up to 2 TB in 0.25 GB increments. The pre-populated auto-purchase limit is set to 2 TB, which you can adjust in the console. The default manual purchase amount is set to 0.25 GB. For manual purchase mode, you will be billed based on the storage capacity you have purchased, while in auto scale mode you will be billed based on 0.25 GB increment bundles, depending on how much you have consumed.
Quick Index has an auto-scaling limit currently set at 2 TB of storage per account, replacing the previous limit of 60 GB of extracted text. If you need to index more than 2 TB, please open a ticket with AWS support to extend this limit.
## Total index capacity
You must purchase data storage capacity for your Amazon Quick index to ingest data from knowledge bases and upload files to spaces. In the index capacity page, the first horizontal bar shows your total index capacity. This is the current capacity available in your index to support file uploads and knowledge bases. You can switch between manual and auto-scaled index capacity modes as per your needs. When auto-scaling mode is **ON**, this capacity automatically adjusts to reflect the latest available capacity based on your ingestion needs. When manual mode is **ON**, this total capacity represents the actual capacity you have purchased for your account based on your estimate of the ingestion needs.
If you previously purchased Index capacity measured in extracted MBs of storage, your existing purchased capacity will be converted to the new Raw Storage dimension automatically. When buying capacity manually, you can also release unused capacity. If you want to release all provisioned index capacity, you can do so after deleting corresponding data—like file uploads in spaces and knowledge bases—in your Amazon Quick instance.
**Note**
With auto-scaling enabled, Amazon Quick may temporarily provision capacity above your maximum purchase limit during periods of high concurrent usage to maintain performance. However, you are only charged for capacity up to your configured maximum purchase limit, not for any temporary over-provisioning that occurs.
**To manage purchase options**
1. Log in to the Amazon Quick console.
1. Select **Manage Quick**.
1. From the admin console left navigation menu, select **Subscriptions**, and then select **Index capacity**.
1. In **Index capacity**, from **Total index capacity** select **Manage capacity**, and do the following:
1. In **Manage purchase options**, do one of the following:
1. To automatically scale index capacity as per usage, select **Auto-scale (Recommended)**. This automatically adjusts index capacity in 0.25 GB increments based on your usage, purchasing or releasing as needed. Then, in **Maximum purchase limit** set the limit at which auto-purchase stops. The value of the maximum purchase limit must be 2 TB. Maximum purchase limit cannot be lower that current used capacity.
1. To manually purchase capacity, select **Manual**. Then, in **Index capacity**, set the total capacity you want your index to hold. The capacity must be between 0.25 GB-2 TB and you can increase it in 0.25 GB increments. When you want to lower the current capacity held by the index, it can't be lowered below the used capacity. Since capacity is managed in 0.25 GB increments, you can only decrease to the next 0.25 GB unit above your current usage. For example, if your index has 2 GB capacity with 1.1 GB consumed, you can reduce capacity to 1.25 GB but not to 1 GB since part of the 1-1.25 GB unit is already in use.
1. Select **Confirm**.
## To view index capacity usage
The Amazon Quick admin console displays both your purchased index capacity and your index capacity usage. The following procedure shows you how to view them.
**To view index data capacity usage**
1. Log in to the Amazon Quick console.
1. Select **Manage Quick**.
1. From the left navigation menu, select **Subscriptions**, and then select **Index capacity**.
1. In **Index capacity**, you'll find your capacity usage under **Index capacity usage**. First bar shows you total purchased capacity and second bar shows you index capacity usage.
## Release unused index capacity
The Amazon Quick admin console displays both your purchased index capacity and your index capacity usage. If you've manually provisioned capacity, you can choose to release unused index capacity. If you've enabled auto-scaling for your index, you don't need to release index capacity as Amazon Quick automatically scales index capacity to your usage. The following procedure shows you how to release unused index capacity.
**Note**
To release any provisioned index capacity, you must delete all datasets and files uploaded to spaces. Then, follow the steps to release unused index capacity.
**To release index data capacity**
1. Log in to the Amazon Quick console.
1. Select **Manage Quick**.
1. From the left navigation menu, select **Subscriptions**, and then select **Index capacity**.
1. In **Index capacity**, select **Manage capacity**.
1. In **Manage index capacity**, reduce the **Index capacity** to your desired value.
## Switch between capacity modes
You can switch between manual and auto-scale index capacity modes at any time. When switching from auto-scale to manual, your current capacity becomes your fixed manual capacity. When switching from manual to auto-scale, you set a maximum purchase limit and Amazon Quick automatically adjusts capacity based on usage.
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#### [ To switch from auto-scale to manual capacity ]
1. Log in to the Amazon Quick console.
1. Select **Manage Quick**.
1. From the admin console left navigation menu, select **Subscriptions**, and then select **Index capacity**.
1. In **Index capacity**, from **Total index capacity** select **Manage capacity**.
1. In **Manage index capacity**, select **Manual**.
1. In **Index capacity**, set your desired manual capacity. The value must be between 0.25 GB-2 TB in 0.25 GB increments and can't be less than current usage.
1. Select **Confirm**.
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#### [ To switch from manual to auto-scale capacity ]
1. Log in to the Amazon Quick console.
1. Select **Manage Quick**.
1. From the admin console left navigation menu, select **Subscriptions**, and then select **Index capacity**.
1. In **Index capacity**, from **Total index capacity** select **Manage capacity**.
1. In **Manage index capacity**, select **Auto-scale (Recommended)**.
1. In **Maximum purchase limit**, set your maximum purchase limit. The value must be between 0.25 GB-2 TB in 0.25 GB increments and can't be less than current usage.
1. Select **Confirm**.
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