SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2024 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console.

Today, AWS announced Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run single-instance open source InfluxDB natively within the AWS console. This partnership represents a significant multi-year commitment by AWS to combine its global reach and accessibility with our industry-leading time series database, InfluxDB. AWS adding InfluxDB as a preferred time series database reflects the demand from AWS customers for InfluxDB and evidence of the time series market acceleration.

Discover how to build a technology infrastructure to get the best of both open source and proprietary software The debate on the cohabitation of open source software (OSS) and proprietary software has persisted as long as both have existed. OSS, designed for unrestricted access and usage, and proprietary software, its opposite, have often been positioned as opponents in the technology arena. However, the reality is far from this either/or dynamic.

If I were to ask you what marine biologists and database engineers have in common, you’d think it was the beginning of a nerdy joke. There probably is one in there somewhere but, as someone that has sat on both sides of the fence – or operated on both sides of the water’s surface to continue the analogy – I can say with certainty that the parallels are more common than coral on the Great Barrier Reef.

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If you’re like most companies running large-scale data intensive workloads in the cloud, you’ve realized that you have significant quantities of waste in your environment. Smart organizations implement a host of FinOps activities to ameliorate or address this waste and the cost it incurs, things such as: … and the list goes on. These are infrastructure-level optimizations.

FinOps is a cultural practice that brings financial accountability to the world of cloud computing. It’s a strategic approach that aids organizations in understanding their cloud costs and making informed business decisions. FinOps is a new way of managing costs in an IT environment that is increasingly shifting towards the variable cost model of cloud services. It combines the best of the technical and financial worlds, resulting in an effective model for managing cloud costs.

Data is never just data. There are structured and unstructured data, qualitative and quantitative data. Among these varied types, continuous data stands out as a key player, especially in the quantitative realm. Continuous data, with its infinite possibilities and precision, captures the fluidity of the real world — from the microseconds of a website’s load time to the fluctuating bandwidth usage on a network.