diff --git a/docs/production/storage-aws.md b/docs/production/storage-aws.md index 84f39828419..cd1707a5f72 100644 --- a/docs/production/storage-aws.md +++ b/docs/production/storage-aws.md @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ if you use MFA), or use a short-term token solution such as ## Should I use S3 or DynamoDB ? -Note that the choices are: "chunks" of timeseries data in S3 and index -in DynamoDB, or everything in DynamoDB. Using just S3 is not an option. +Note that the choices for the chunks storage backend are: "chunks" of +timeseries data in S3 and index in DynamoDB, or everything in DynamoDB. +Using just S3 is not an option, unless you use the [blocks storage](../../blocks-storage/) engine. Broadly S3 is much more expensive to read and write, while DynamoDB is much more expensive to store over months. S3 charges differently, so