# What is Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus?


Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container metrics that makes it easier to securely monitor container environments at scale. With Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, you can use the same open-source Prometheus data model and query language that you use today to monitor the performance of your containerized workloads, and also enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.

 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus automatically scales the ingestion, storage, and querying of operational metrics as workloads scale up and down. It integrates with AWS security services to enable fast and secure access to data.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is designed to be highly available using multiple Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) deployments. Data ingested into a workspace is replicated across three Availability Zones in the same Region.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus works with container clusters that run on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and self-managed Kubernetes environments.

With Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, you use the same open-source Prometheus data model and PromQL query language that you use with Prometheus. Engineering teams can use PromQL to filter, aggregate, and alarm on metrics and quickly gain performance visibility without any code changes. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus provides flexible query capabilities without the operational cost and complexity.

Metrics ingested into a workspace are stored for 150 days by default, and are then automatically deleted. You can adjust the retention period by configuring your workspace up to a maximum of 1095 days (three years). For more information, see [Configure your workspace](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prometheus/latest/userguide/AMP-workspace-configuration.html).

## Supported Regions


Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus currently supports the following Regions:

[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/prometheus/latest/userguide/what-is-Amazon-Managed-Service-Prometheus.html)

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus includes control plane endpoints (to perform workspace management tasks) and data plane endpoints (to work with Prometheus-compatible data in a workspace instance). Control plane endpoints start with `aps.*`, and dataplane endpoints start with `aps-workspaces.*`. Endpoints that end in `.amazonaws.com` support IPv4, and endpoints that end in `.api.aws` support both IPv4 and IPv6.

## Pricing


You incur charges for ingestion and storage of metrics. Storage charges are based on the compressed size of metric samples and metadata. For more information, see [Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Pricing](http://aws.amazon.com/prometheus/pricing).

You can use AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to monitor your charges. For more information, see [Exploring your data using Cost Explorer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-exploring-data.html) and [What are AWS Cost and Usage Reports](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur.html). 

## Premium support


If you subscribe to any level of the AWS premium support plans, your premium support applies to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.