Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Intended audienceObjectives

Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

Balwanth Bobilli, Amazon Web Services

January 2025 (document history)

You can build time-series-based solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using Amazon Timestream. Amazon Timestream offers fully managed, purpose-built time-series database engines for workloads, from low-latency queries to large-scale data ingestion. With Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, you can run open source InfluxDB databases on AWS for time-series applications, such as real-time alerting and monitoring infrastructure reliability, with millisecond response times. Timestream for InfluxDB provides up to 99.9 percent availability.

This guide provides prescriptive guidance for applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles when you plan your Timestream for InfluxDB deployment. The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructures for a variety of applications and workloads. It also provides a consistent approach for you to evaluate architectures and implement scalable designs.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is built around the following six pillars:

  • Operational excellence

  • Security

  • Reliability

  • Performance efficiency

  • Cost optimization

  • Sustainability

This guide provides information from the AWS Well-Architected Framework design pillars. Consider using these best practices when you deploy Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB on AWS.

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Intended audience

This guide is intended for data engineers, solutions architects, and data analysts who design and implement solutions for time-series data on AWS.

Objectives

This guide can help you and your organization do the following:

  • Choose from the supported deployment options, perform optimized writes, and implement fine-grained access.

  • Follow the AWS Well-Architected design patterns that help improve resiliency and security.

  • Design your queries for optimal performance.

  • Learn how to be operationally efficient when managing your Timestream for InfluxDB instance in production.