Amazon DocumentDB
Official docs outline
10 sections- What is DocumentDB
MongoDB-compatible document database with cluster architecture.
- MongoDB compatibility
Supported MongoDB APIs, operators and differences.
- Developing
Connecting, drivers and working with documents and indexes.
- Managing clusters and instances
Creating, scaling and maintaining clusters and instances.
- High availability and replication
Replica instances, failover and read preference.
- Global clusters
Cross-Region replication for disaster recovery.
- Performance optimization
Query planning, indexing and tuning.
- Backup and restore
Continuous backups, snapshots and point-in-time restore.
- Elastic clusters
Sharded clusters that scale to millions of reads and writes.
- Security
Encryption at rest, TLS in transit, IAM and VPC controls for clusters.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
Versions and support
4 release lines| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | Nov 14, 2025 | — | Supported |
| 5.0 | Mar 1, 2023 | — | Supported LTS |
| 4.0 | Nov 9, 2020 | — | Supported |
| 3.6 | Jan 9, 2019 | — | Ended Mar 30, 2026 |
Source: endoflife.date