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Category: Amazon DocumentDB
Optimize costs with scheduled scaling of Amazon DocumentDB for read workloads
In this post, we show you two ways to schedule the scaling of your Amazon DocumentDB instance-based clusters to address anticipated read traffic patterns. By aligning your Amazon DocumentDB cluster scaling operations with the anticipated read traffic patterns, you can achieve optimal performance during peak loads and save costs by reducing the need to overprovision your cluster.
A hybrid approach for homogeneous migration to an Amazon DocumentDB elastic cluster
Today, customers use document databases for many different types of applications. For example, gaming clients use them for handling users’ attribute information, while a stock application employs a document-oriented database to store chronological quote data. As the number of documents grows over time, you need more compute and storage than what is traditionally offered through […]
Scale your connections with Amazon DocumentDB using mongobetween
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. You can use the same application code written using MongoDB API (versions 3.6, 4.0, and 5.0) compatible drivers, and tools to run, manage, and […]
Use LangChain and vector search on Amazon DocumentDB to build a generative AI chatbot
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) offers benefits to customers building modern applications across multiple domains, including healthcare, gaming, and finance. As a fully managed document database, it can improve user experiences through flexibility, scalability, high performance, and advanced functionality. Enterprises that use the JSON data model supported by Amazon DocumentDB can achieve faster application development […]
Improve query performance using partial indexes in Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. You can enhance […]
Mask sensitive Amazon DocumentDB log data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a highly efficient, scalable, and fully managed enterprise document database service designed to handle native JSON workloads. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies storing, querying, and indexing JSON data as a document database. The Amazon DocumentDB profiler feature is a valuable tool for monitoring the slowest operations on your cluster to help […]
Scale write performance on Amazon DocumentDB elastic clusters
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed document database service that makes it straightforward to store, query, and index native JSON workloads in the cloud. Amazon DocumentDB decouples compute and storage, so each component scales independently. Amazon DocumentDB supports two types of clusters: instance-based clusters and elastic clusters. In […]
Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. You can enhance […]
Run complex queries on massive amounts of data stored on your Amazon DocumentDB clusters using Apache Spark running on Amazon EMR
In this post, we demonstrate how to set up Amazon EMR to run complex queries on massive amounts of data stored in your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters using Apache Spark. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document […]
Upgrade Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 to 5.0 with near-zero downtime
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON database designed for scaling enterprise workloads. You can use the same MongoDB API 3.6, 4.0, and 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it simple to store, query, and index JSON data. With Amazon DocumentDB version 5.0, you can now perform a major version upgrade of your Amazon DocumentDB clusters from version 3.6 and 4.0 to 5.0 in order to unlock latest features including support for vector search, I/O-optimized storage, document compression, text search, partial index and more. In this post, we explore how to perform an upgrade with near-zero downtime from Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 to 5.0 by using an in-place major version upgrade and Amazon DocumentDB volume cloning.