Category: Amazon DocumentDB

In this post, we walk through how we used Kiro, an agentic Integrated Development Environment (IDE), to build a complete fitness center management application that digitizes paper-based fitness tracking. We explore Kiro’s spec-driven development workflow and see how it transforms complex application development into a streamlined, iterative process. Our solution uses Amazon DocumentDB as the backend.

On Oct 28, 2025, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) introduced a new query planner (NQP) to improve database performance and stability. The redesigned architecture uses improved cost estimation techniques and optimized algorithms for smarter query plan selection.

In this post, you will learn to migrate a regional Amazon DocumentDB cluster from one AWS Region to another using the Global Cluster feature with low downtime and without performance impact.

JSON has become the standard data exchange protocol in modern applications. Its human-readable format, hierarchical structure, and schema flexibility make it ideal for representing complex, evolving data models. As applications grow more sophisticated, traditional relational databases often struggle with several challenges: Rigid schemas that resist frequent changes Complex joins for hierarchical data Performance bottlenecks when […]

Today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announced that Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 will reach end of life on March 30, 2026. Starting March 31, 2026, you can continue to run Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 on Extended Support. Extended Support provides fixes for critical security issues and bugs through patch releases for three years beyond the end of standard support of Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6.

In this post, we discuss handling large collections that are approaching 32 TiB for Amazon DocumentDB. We demonstrate solutions for transitioning from uncompressed to compressed collections using AWS DMS. This migration not only accommodates larger uncompressed data volumes, but also significantly reduces storage, compute costs associated with Amazon DocumentDB and improves performance.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) launched its integration with AWS CloudShell. With this integration, you can now connect to Amazon DocumentDB with a single click on the AWS Management Console without needing to perform any setup. In this post, we show how to connect to and work with Amazon DocumentDB using CloudShell. Amazon DocumentDB is […]

In the post Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0, we discussed various ways to reduce costs by migrating your workload to Amazon DocumentDB. In this post, we demonstrate the document compression feature in Amazon DocumentDB to reduce storage usage and I/O cost.

In this post, we explore the fundamentals of building containerized applications for Amazon DocumentDB using Quarkus with the Panache ORM library. We cover the processes of containerizing your code, building an image, and deploying it using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate.

Amazon DocumentDB now supports authentication of database users using IAM – users and applications can authenticate to Amazon DocumentDB clusters using IAM users and roles. In this post, we discuss this new feature and provide you resources on how to enable IAM authentication in your Amazon DocumentDB cluster.