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Category: Amazon DocumentDB

Securely access Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) locally using AWS Client VPN

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. When interfacing with a document database such as Amazon DocumentDB, developers need an environment to test and debug their applications. In this post, we cover how to connect to your Amazon DocumentDB resources from outside […]

Build a geo-location application using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports geospatial functionality, including 2dsphere specialized indexes and the operators for determining proximity, the $nearSphere query operator, and the $geoNear aggregation pipeline stage. After working backward from our customers’ goals for the features they want most, Amazon DocumentDB now also supports two additional operators that are useful for geospatial inclusion […]

Perform a live migration from a sharded document database cluster to Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical JSON workloads for enterprises. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. In this blog series, we discuss the approach for seamless migration of live data from a […]

Introducing DML auditing for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. Amazon DocumentDB has added support for auditing Data Manipulation Language […]

Archive data from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon S3

In this post, we show you how to archive older, less frequently accessed document collections stored in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon S3 provides a highly durable, cost-effective archive […]

Deploy a containerized application with Amazon ECS and connect to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) securely

Deploying containerized applications with cloud database services can involve many manual steps, such as configuring networks and securing database connections from the applications. To simplify development and deployment, you can use infrastructure as code (IaC) to build, configure, deploy, and scale containerized applications automatically. In this post, I show you how to use IaC concepts […]

Document modeling with Amazon DocumentDB and Hackolade

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 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 or 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 […]

HP adds value to print customers through automated replenishment based on Amazon DocumentDB

This is a guest blog post by Mukesh Mishra, IT Architect at HP Inc. HP Inc’s vision is to create technology that makes life better for every customer and partner, and we strive hard to simplify the customer experience across product lines and services. HP offers a broad portfolio of printers across different customer segments, […]

Achieve better performance on Amazon DocumentDB with AWS Graviton2 instances

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. We recently announced support for AWS Graviton2 instances for Amazon DocumentDB. AWS Graviton2 processors are custom built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and feature always-on, fully encrypted DDR4 memory and 50% faster per-core […]

Optimize data archival costs in Amazon DocumentDB using rolling collections

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB emulates the responses that a client expects from a MongoDB server by implementing the Apache 2.0 open-source MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 APIs on a purpose-built, distributed, fault-tolerant, and self-healing storage system that […]