Notice: Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics has been closed to new customers since June 2025 and is in maintenance mode. For new time series projects on AWS, Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is the current, AWS-recommended service.
What is Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB?
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is a fully managed time series database built on the open-source InfluxDB database engine. The service is aimed at teams that want an InfluxDB experience without the operational overhead of running it themselves, offering low query latency for real-time monitoring and alerting.
Unlike the older Timestream for LiveAnalytics approach with serverless, pay-per-request billing, Timestream for InfluxDB is instance-based: you choose an instance size and storage configuration, similar to Amazon RDS, while AWS handles patching, backups, and high availability.
Core Features
- Managed InfluxDB database engine with InfluxQL and Flux support
- Compatibility with the InfluxDB API and common InfluxDB tooling (e.g. Telegraf)
- Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments for different availability requirements
- Automated backups and managed infrastructure
- Low query latency for real-time dashboards and alerting
Typical Use Cases
IoT Telemetry: Storing and analyzing sensor data from many devices, for example for real-time temperature, utilization, or condition monitoring.
Infrastructure and Application Monitoring: Collecting metrics for dashboards and alerting, often combined with Grafana or Telegraf.
Migrating Existing InfluxDB Workloads: Teams already running self-hosted InfluxDB can migrate their workloads to AWS with comparatively little adaptation effort.
Benefits
- Fully managed operation without running your own InfluxDB infrastructure
- Compatibility with existing InfluxDB code and ecosystem
- Low latency for real-time queries
- Predictable, instance-based costs
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory supports you with Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: assessing whether the LiveAnalytics or InfluxDB variant fits your use case, migrating existing InfluxDB or LiveAnalytics workloads, time series data modeling, and building dashboards and monitoring solutions.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB?
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is a fully managed time series database built on the open-source InfluxDB database engine. It is designed for real-time monitoring, IoT telemetry, and application metrics with very low query latency.
What happened to Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics?
Timestream for LiveAnalytics has been closed to new customers since June 2025 and is in maintenance mode. Existing customers can continue to use the service, but AWS recommends Timestream for InfluxDB for new projects.
How does pricing work?
Timestream for InfluxDB is billed on an instance basis: you pay for compute capacity per instance-hour and for the storage you use, similar to Amazon RDS. Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments are available at different rates.
Which query languages are supported?
As an InfluxDB-based service, Timestream for InfluxDB supports the InfluxDB query languages InfluxQL and Flux as well as the InfluxDB API, keeping existing InfluxDB code and tooling largely compatible.
How do I integrate IoT data?
Data can be ingested via the InfluxDB-compatible write API, Telegraf, or custom applications. For AWS-native pipelines, IoT Core or Kinesis Data Streams can be placed upstream to collect and forward sensor data.
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