How can I free Spice capacity?

Question

Hello,
I just startet using AWS Quicksight and ran into a problem when trying to upload new datasets using SPICE. 
According to the site on Manage Quicksight/ SPICE capacity my SPICE usage is with 297 GB way over my capacity limit of 31 GB. The Problem is that I already deleted all Datasets in Quicksight to get more SPICE capacity and this led to a gain of 14 MB of free capacity, but I am now wondering how should I free the remaining capacity of 297 GB? 
I can not see an option to release capacity in the QuickSight console.
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Answer

Let's have a look at the datasets and ingestions first.
You can check the amount of SPICE capacity used by a particular dataset, as well as the users accessing them (ARNs) by running the list-ingestions CLI command [1] listed along with the describe-data-set [2] command:
```
$ aws quicksight describe-data-set --aws-account-id  --data-set-id ''
Please replace the '' with the dataset-id of each dataset and check the value of 'ConsumedSpiceCapacityInBytes' in the output of the CLI command. 
```
To get the datasets IDs, you can list of all DataSets in QuickSight account, using list-data-sets CLI [3]
```
$ aws quicksight list-data-sets --aws-account-id 152558349946
```

If you prefer to use the Python SDK, sample code is below to retrieve data:

To list the datasets:
```
response = client.list_data_sets(
               AwsAccountId=aws_account_id,
               NextToken=next_token,
               MaxResults=100
)
```

To list the SPICE ingestions: 
```
response = client.list_ingestions(  
               DataSetId = data_set_id,
               AwsAccountId=aws_account_id,
               MaxResults=100
)
```

[1] list-ingestions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/quicksight/list-ingestions.html#list-ingestions

[2] describe-data-set: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/quicksight/describe-data-set.html

[3] list-data-set: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/quicksight/list-data-sets.html

Other References:

You can also see the Aggregate SPICE metrics - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/monitoring-quicksight.html#aggregate-spice-metrics

And here is the link on how to view SPICE capacity and usage in an AWS Region - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/managing-spice-capacity.html#spice-current-capacity-and-usage

Finally, for QuickSight related questions, we have launched a fully dedicated community; in case you want to check there to see if there are further answer to your questions: https://community.amazonquicksight.com/

How can I free Spice capacity?

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