# Amazon — Downgrading user roles in Amazon Quick

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-05T15:51:38+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/downgrading-user-roles-in-amazon-quick/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16055-downgrading-user-roles-in-amazon-quick
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Pricing: Authors and Admins pay a fixed monthly per-user fee, while Readers use session-based pricing.

Amazon published a guide on downgrading user roles in Amazon Quick, covering why to downgrade (least privilege and cost savings), prerequisites, and two methods: manual deletion-and-recreation and using the AWS CLI. The console does not support direct downgrades from Admin or Author to Reader, so the CLI step-down sequence (Admin > Author > Restricted Reader > Reader) is required for legacy BI roles.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/downgrading-user-roles-in-amazon-quick/:

> Downgrading user roles is a key part of enforcing least privilege. When a user’s responsibilities no longer require authoring or administrative capabilities, reduce their role accordingly to minimize the security surface area.

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