Author: Renuka Uttarala

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database service that makes it easier to store and analyze trillions of events per day. In this post, we guide you through the essential concepts of Timestream and demonstrate how to use them to make critical data modeling decisions. We walk you through how data modeling helps for query performance and cost-effective usage. We explore a practical example of modeling video streaming data, showcasing how these concepts are applied and the resulting benefits. Lastly, we provide more best practices that directly or indirectly relate to data modeling.