diff --git a/app/multitenant/aws_collector.go b/app/multitenant/aws_collector.go
index 37698d936..5550ac830 100644
--- a/app/multitenant/aws_collector.go
+++ b/app/multitenant/aws_collector.go
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ const (
 	tsField     = "ts"
 	reportField = "report"
 	natsTimeout = 10 * time.Second
+
+	reportQuantisationInterval = 3000000000 // 3 seconds in nanoseconds
+	// Grace period allows for some gap between the timestamp on reports
+	// (assigned when they arrive at collector) and them appearing in DynamoDB query
+	gracePeriod = 500000000 // 1/2 second in nanoseconds
 )
 
 var (
@@ -167,7 +172,7 @@ func NewAWSCollector(config AWSCollectorConfig) (AWSCollector, error) {
 		cfg:       config,
 		db:        dynamodb.New(session.New(config.DynamoDBConfig)),
 		merger:    app.NewFastMerger(),
-		inProcess: newInProcessStore(reportCacheSize, config.Window),
+		inProcess: newInProcessStore(reportCacheSize, config.Window+reportQuantisationInterval),
 		nats:      nc,
 		waiters:   map[watchKey]*nats.Subscription{},
 	}, nil
@@ -225,8 +230,13 @@ func (c *awsCollector) CreateTables() error {
 	return err
 }
 
+type keyInfo struct {
+	key string
+	ts  int64
+}
+
 // reportKeysInRange returns the s3 keys for reports in the specified range
-func (c *awsCollector) reportKeysInRange(ctx context.Context, userid string, row int64, start, end time.Time) ([]string, error) {
+func (c *awsCollector) reportKeysInRange(ctx context.Context, userid string, row int64, start, end time.Time) ([]keyInfo, error) {
 	rowKey := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", userid, strconv.FormatInt(row, 10))
 	var resp *dynamodb.QueryOutput
 	err := instrument.TimeRequestHistogram(ctx, "DynamoDB.Query", dynamoRequestDuration, func(_ context.Context) error {
@@ -260,22 +270,24 @@ func (c *awsCollector) reportKeysInRange(ctx context.Context, userid string, row
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	result := []string{}
+	result := []keyInfo{}
 	for _, item := range resp.Items {
 		reportKey := item[reportField].S
-		if reportKey == nil {
+		tsValue := item[tsField].N
+		if reportKey == nil || tsValue == nil {
 			log.Errorf("Empty row!")
 			continue
 		}
 		dynamoValueSize.WithLabelValues("BatchGetItem").
 			Add(float64(len(*reportKey)))
-		result = append(result, *reportKey)
+		ts, _ := strconv.ParseInt(*tsValue, 10, 64)
+		result = append(result, keyInfo{key: *reportKey, ts: ts})
 	}
 	return result, nil
 }
 
 // getReportKeys returns the S3 for reports in the interval [start, end].
-func (c *awsCollector) getReportKeys(ctx context.Context, userid string, start, end time.Time) ([]string, error) {
+func (c *awsCollector) getReportKeys(ctx context.Context, userid string, start, end time.Time) ([]keyInfo, error) {
 	var (
 		rowStart = start.UnixNano() / time.Hour.Nanoseconds()
 		rowEnd   = end.UnixNano() / time.Hour.Nanoseconds()
@@ -283,7 +295,7 @@ func (c *awsCollector) getReportKeys(ctx context.Context, userid string, start,
 	)
 
 	// Queries will only every span 2 rows max.
-	var reportKeys []string
+	var reportKeys []keyInfo
 	if rowStart != rowEnd {
 		reportKeys1, err := c.reportKeysInRange(ctx, userid, rowStart, start, end)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -342,6 +354,15 @@ func (c *awsCollector) getReports(ctx context.Context, reportKeys []string) ([]r
 	return reports, nil
 }
 
+/*
+S3 stores original reports from one probe at the timestamp they arrived at collector.
+Collector also sends every report to memcached.
+The in-memory cache stores:
+ - individual reports deserialised, under S3 key for report
+ - sets of reports in interval [t,t+3) merged, under key "instance:t"
+   - so to check the cache for reports from 14:31:00 to 14:31:15 you would request 5 keys 3 seconds apart
+*/
+
 func (c *awsCollector) Report(ctx context.Context, timestamp time.Time) (report.Report, error) {
 	span, ctx := opentracing.StartSpanFromContext(ctx, "awsCollector.Report")
 	defer span.Finish()
@@ -356,15 +377,59 @@ func (c *awsCollector) Report(ctx context.Context, timestamp time.Time) (report.
 		return report.MakeReport(), err
 	}
 	span.LogFields(otlog.Int("keys", len(reportKeys)), otlog.String("timestamp", timestamp.String()))
-	log.Debugf("Fetching %d reports to %v", len(reportKeys), timestamp)
-	reports, err := c.getReports(ctx, reportKeys)
+
+	var reports []report.Report
+	// Fetch a merged report for each time quantum covering the window
+	startTS, endTS := start.UnixNano(), end.UnixNano()
+	ts := startTS - (startTS % reportQuantisationInterval)
+	for ; ts+reportQuantisationInterval+gracePeriod < endTS; ts += reportQuantisationInterval {
+		quantumReport, err := c.reportForQuantum(ctx, userid, reportKeys, ts)
+		if err != nil {
+			return report.MakeReport(), err
+		}
+		reports = append(reports, quantumReport)
+	}
+	// Fetch individual reports for the period after the last quantum
+	last, err := c.reportsForKeysInRange(ctx, reportKeys, ts, endTS)
 	if err != nil {
 		return report.MakeReport(), err
 	}
-
+	reports = append(reports, last...)
+	span.LogFields(otlog.Int("merging", len(reports)))
 	return c.merger.Merge(reports), nil
 }
 
+// Fetch a merged report either from cache or from store which we put in cache
+func (c *awsCollector) reportForQuantum(ctx context.Context, userid string, reportKeys []keyInfo, start int64) (report.Report, error) {
+	key := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", userid, start)
+	cached, _, err := c.inProcess.FetchReports(ctx, []string{key})
+	if len(cached) == 1 {
+		return cached[key], nil
+	}
+	reports, err := c.reportsForKeysInRange(ctx, reportKeys, start, start+reportQuantisationInterval)
+	if err != nil {
+		return report.MakeReport(), err
+	}
+	merged := c.merger.Merge(reports)
+	c.inProcess.StoreReport(key, merged)
+	return merged, nil
+}
+
+// Find the keys relating to this time period then fetch from memcached and/or S3
+func (c *awsCollector) reportsForKeysInRange(ctx context.Context, reportKeys []keyInfo, start, end int64) ([]report.Report, error) {
+	var keys []string
+	for _, k := range reportKeys {
+		if k.ts >= start && k.ts < end {
+			keys = append(keys, k.key)
+		}
+	}
+	if span := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx); span != nil {
+		span.LogFields(otlog.Int("fetching", len(keys)), otlog.Int64("start", start), otlog.Int64("end", end))
+	}
+	log.Debugf("Fetching %d reports from %v to %v", len(keys), start, end)
+	return c.getReports(ctx, keys)
+}
+
 func (c *awsCollector) HasReports(ctx context.Context, timestamp time.Time) (bool, error) {
 	userid, err := c.cfg.UserIDer(ctx)
 	if err != nil {