[AWS Certificate]-Amazon Timestream

Amazon Timestream - Overview

• Fully managed, fast, scalable, serverless time-series database service
• Time-series data measures how things change over time
• Store and analyze trillions of time-ordered events per day
• 1,000x faster query performance at 1/10th the cost of relational databases
• Automates rollups, retention, tiering, and compression of data
• Use cases:
  • Log data for DevOps
  • Sensor data for IoT applications
  • Customer clickstream data in web traffic monitoring
  • Industrial telemetry data for equipment maintenance

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What is a time series

 

 

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Timestream

 

• It's a serverless offering
• Automatically scales writes, storage, and query capacity on demand
• Can set the data retention policy for each table
• Data is organized by time intervals
• Uses time-series specific data compression (=less scanning, faster performance)
• Separate data processing layer for data ingestion, storage sharing and queries
• Uses an adaptive query engine that adapts to different time-series datasets
• Offers built-in analytics (interpolation / smoothing / approximation)

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Timestream - Use cases

 

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Timestream Pricing

 

• You pay only for what you use
• Writes - per million writes
• Reads (query) - per TB of data scanned by queries
• Storage - per GB (in-memory / SSD / magnetic)
• Data transfer