Category: Amazon DocumentDB

April 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. 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 […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, reliable, and fully managed database service. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MongoDB API-compatible databases in the cloud. With Amazon DocumentDB, you can run the same application code and use the same drivers and tools that you use with MongoDB API. Performance Insights adds to the existing Amazon DocumentDB monitoring features to illustrate your cluster performance and help you analyze any issues that affect it. With the Performance Insights dashboard, you can visualize the database load and filter the load by waits, query statements, hosts, or application. Performance Insights is included with Amazon DocumentDB instances and stores seven days of performance history in a rolling window at no additional cost.

This post describes a methodology to transform and migrate data from a relational database like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to a non-relational database like Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using AWS Glue.

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]

August, 2024: This post has been updated to reflect advances in technology and new features AWS released, to help you on your generative AI journey. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has captured our imagination and is transforming industries with its ability to answer questions, write stories, create art, and generate code. AWS customers are increasingly asking […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we discuss how to create the data pipelines from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and publish changes to your destination store. Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

A common trend in modern application development and data processing is the use of Apache Kafka as a standard delivery mechanism for data pipeline and fan-out approach. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully-managed, highly available, and secure service that makes it simple for developers and DevOps managers to run applications […]

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 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 […]

In this post, we show you a modernization path for the migration of your JSON workloads from on-premises databases to the AWS Cloud. You can move your document workloads to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and use full capabilities of this purpose-built JSON database. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully-managed native JSON document database that makes […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB-compatible JSON based workloads. On 02/MAR/2023, Amazon DocumentDB launched support for Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE), MongoDB 5.0 API compatibility, new aggregation operators, and other enhancements. In this post, we summarize what’s new in Amazon DocumentDB and […]