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What is Amazon Timestream?
Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed time-series database service for workloads from low-latency queries to large-scale data ingestion. It offers multiple database engines including an open source InfluxDB variant with built-in time-series analytics functions.
Amazon Timestream pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
On-demand hourly compute/storage or 1-year Database Savings Plans
On-Demand
Pay for compute capacity per hour with no long-term commitments, no minimum fees
Database Savings Plans
Flexible pricing with commitment to specific usage over 1-year term
What Amazon Timestream does
The capabilities that matter for time-series databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)
- SQL
- SQL compatibility
- Full SQL
- Ingest model
- Push
- Data model
- Metrics (labels/tags)
- Downsampling / rollups
- -
- Retention / TTL
- -
- Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
- -
- High-cardinality handling
- Strong
- Clustering / horizontal scale
- Distributed / sharded
- Replication / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Managed
- Prometheus remote-write compatible
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Timestream FAQ
Common questions about Amazon Timestream, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Amazon Timestream?
Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed time-series database service for workloads from low-latency queries to large-scale data ingestion. It offers multiple database engines including an open source InfluxDB variant with built-in time-series analytics functions. It is indexed under Time-Series Databases.
Is Amazon Timestream free?
Amazon Timestream offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: On-Demand and Database Savings Plans. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Amazon Timestream support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Timestream. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Amazon Timestream be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Timestream, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What security certifications does Amazon Timestream have?
We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Timestream. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Timestream not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Amazon Timestream alternatives
Other time-series databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- PrometheusOpen-source metrics and time-series monitoring solution for systems and applicationsmedium · 58%
- ClickHouseA high-performance, column-oriented database optimized for real-time analytics at petabyte scalemedium · 61%
- InfluxDBA time-series database engineered for real-time ingestion and analysis of high-velocity operational datamedium · 70%
- TDengineTime-series database for billions of connected sensorsmedium · 68%
- TimescaleDBPostgreSQL-based time-series database system designed to store and query petabyte-scale sensor and machine data efficientlymedium · 63%
- QuestDBA fast, open-source database optimized for high-volume time-series data with millisecond query performancemedium · 63%
Compare Amazon Timestream
Side by side against other time-series databases, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon Timestream, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 0.07 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 35 | 0.12 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Clustering: distributed · Data model: metrics · Deployment: managed · Ingest model: push · Licence class: proprietary · Query language: SQL | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-13 · 75% |
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