Amazon Timestream
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What both publish
| Fact | Amazon Timestream | M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Official integrations include AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, MSK, Telegraf, QuickSight, Grafana, JDBC business-intelligence tools and SageMaker. | The documentation describes integrations with Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, and InfluxDB. |
| Purpose | Amazon Timestream offers managed time-series database engines for workloads ranging from low-latency queries to large-scale data ingestion. | M3 is a Prometheus-compatible metrics engine for scaling Prometheus-based monitoring and centralized metrics storage. |
Amazon Timestream plans
- On-demand—
- Amazon Timestream on-demandFree
- Timestream for InfluxDB single-AZ example$737.88 a month
- Database Savings Plans—
- Timestream for LiveAnalytics on-demand—
M3 plans
- M3 (open source)Free
Pick Amazon Timestream if…
Amazon Timestream suits teams working with time-series workloads such as IoT telemetry, real-time monitoring, analytics, predictive maintenance, or long-term telemetry retention. Its supported ingestion routes and query languages may fit teams using AWS services and related tools.
Pick M3 if…
M3 suits teams building Prometheus-based monitoring that need centralized, long-retention metrics storage and horizontal scaling. It is also relevant to developers who want an open-source tool with PromQL and Graphite query support.