Quicksight Data Transfer to RDS

Question

Hi,

When connecting QuickSight to RDS in the same region do you need to pay for data transfer?

Is it necessary to [connect QuickSight to customer's VPC][1] or does QuickSight understands that RDS is inside AWS network and uses internal connections?

Thank you.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/working-with-aws-vpc.html

Accepted Answer

if quicksight is connecting to an RDS instance in a VPC, the connection is enabled via ENI placed in VPC. This ENI will allow quicksight to access RDS within a VPC. hence no data transfer charges.if the traffic crosses AZ, then inter-AZ charges would apply.

If the database is on AWS and in the same AWS Region as your QuickSight account, you can auto-discover the instance to make connecting to it easier. To do this, you must grant QuickSight permissions to access it. For more information, see : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/scoping-policies-for-access-to-aws-resources.html

if the database is in a VPC, then there are different set of steps needed to connect it to quicksight, depending on whether its in default VPC or non default VPC.

you can read about the steps in detail here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/configure-access.html#ip-address-ranges

Quicksight Data Transfer to RDS

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