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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Overview of Amazon Timestream

Amazon Timestream is a time-series database. A time-series database is optimized for storing and querying data saved in key pairs of time and value. It is often used when data is being stored from sensors or operations with a timestamp and associated value that need to be tracked for trending analysis.

Timestream is a fully-managed, serverless, and scalable database service specifically customized and optimized for Internet of Things (IOT) devices and application sensors, allowing you to store trillions of events per day up to 1,000 times faster than via an RDBMS. Being serverless means you do not need to define your compute values, as Timestream will automatically scale up and down depending on the current workload.

Timestream features a tier-storage solution that moves older and less frequently accessed data to a cheaper storage tier, saving costs. Timestream has its own adaptive query engine that learns your data access patterns to optimize query...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
Read more about Kate Gawron