Amazon Timestream Features

All data in Timestream is automatically encrypted by default, so you don’t need to manually encrypt data at rest or in transit. 

Timestream for LiveAnalytics offers native integrations for IAM and Amazon KMS services, so you can securely manage access to your resources and data, including specifying an Amazon KMS customer managed key for encrypting data in the magnetic store. Timestream for LiveAnalytics also allows you to protect your time-series data, through integration with Amazon Backup, to help you meet your compliance and business continuity needs. 

Using this fully managed functionality, you can create immutable backups, automate backup lifecycle management, and copy those backups across Amazon Web Services accounts and Regions. In addition, you can schedule periodic backups of your data to meet your regulatory needs. The first backup of your table is a full backup, and subsequent backups of the same table are incremental, only copying the changes since the last backup, making it flexible and cost-effective to protect your data. 

You can create different backup plans for the Timestream for LiveAnalytics tables in your account, allowing you to protect each resource based on your specific regulatory and business continuity needs. You can also set retention policies that will automatically retain, expire, and transition backups to cold storage, minimizing backup storage costs. Additionally, you can restore the entire table to a database in a few steps, simplifying data recovery. 

Timestream for InfluxDB offers integration with Amazon Secrets Manager, so you can rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Timestream for LiveAnalytics scheduled queries offer a fully managed, serverless, and scalable solution for calculating and storing aggregates, rollups, and other real-time analytics used to power frequently accessed operational dashboards, business reports, applications, and device monitoring systems. With scheduled queries, you simply define the queries that calculate aggregates, rollups, and other real-time analytics on your incoming data.

Timestream for LiveAnalytics periodically and automatically runs these queries and reliably writes the results into a configurable destination table. You can then point your dashboards, reports, applications, and monitoring systems to simply query the destination tables instead of querying the considerably larger source tables containing the incoming time-series data. This leads to increased performance while reducing cost by an order of magnitude. 

The destination tables contain much less data than the source tables, thereby offering faster and less expensive data access and storage. Given that destination tables contain much less data than source tables, you can store data in the destination tables for a much longer duration at a fraction of the storage cost of the source table. You can also choose to reduce the data retention period of your source tables to lower costs. Scheduled queries can, therefore, make time-series analytics faster, more cost-effective, and more accessible to many more customers, so you can continue to make better data-driven business decisions.