Is the Amazon Timestream pricing example wrong?

Question

It seems to me that the pricing example for Timestream on   is incorrect. The example is for monthly costs but the magnetic storage piece appears to mix a GB/month rate of $0.03 with the number of days in a year 30 * 12?  
  
Magnetic store would cost: $108. This is computed as ( 10 ** 1GB ** **30 days** ** **12** **months** ) ** $0.03 GB-month = $108  
  
Shouldn't this simply be 10 ** 1GB ** $0.03 GB-month = $0.30?  
  
Edited by: TedOC on Feb 25, 2020 6:05 AM

Answer

Hello TedOC,  
  
I think the _first_ month would be:   
sum j**0.009864, j=1 to 25   == **$3.20*  
Because: 0.009864 = (10 GB/day ** $0.0000411/h ** 24h),  and this adds up for 24 days (starting at day 4...28)  
  
But $108 is really strange...  
  
Greetings  
 Christian  
  
Edited by: ChristianAchenbachUbix on Feb 26, 2020 7:08 AM

Answer

Thanks. That might explain the cost of the final month after having used the system for a year. That doesn't seem to be what the example is trying to explain though.  
  
Since Timestream is still not released two years after it was announced I don't know that the pricing really matters at this point.

Answer

Is there any update or guidance on ETA? It has indeed been almost two years since Timestream was announced. Back in 2018 it was one of the major reasons to start migration to AWS as we are processing gigabytes of smart parking sensor time-series data.  
  
We are using RDS as a placeholder but the overheads are growing as data volumes build up!  
  
 is waiting for Timrestream!  
InfluxDB on EC2 is not the best recipe for 2020!

Answer

Hello TedOC,  
  
oh, now I see: The retention of the magnetic store is 12 month. After a while you have to pay for the complete 12 month worth of data.   
  
So: 10GB every day for the last 12 month = 3600 GB on magnetic disks * 0.03 = $108  
  
Greetings  
 Christian  
  
Edited by: ChristianAchenbachUbix on Feb 26, 2020 11:22 PM

Is the Amazon Timestream pricing example wrong?

相关内容