Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility now available in Canada’s Calgary region

Amazon DocumentDB, which offers compatibility with MongoDB, is now accessible in the Canada West (Calgary) region. This expansion adds to the regions where Amazon DocumentDB can be utilized, providing more options for businesses looking to leverage this service.

Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database designed to simplify and reduce the costs of operating essential document workloads. It achieves this by allowing operations at virtually any scale without the need for infrastructure management. The service is tailored to deliver the scalability and durability required for running mission-critical MongoDB workloads, with automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB that does not affect application performance.

Moreover, Amazon DocumentDB offers seamless integration with several AWS services, including AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, and AWS Backup. It supports millions of requests per second and can be expanded to 15 low-latency read replicas within minutes, ensuring no downtime for applications.

For those interested in exploring Amazon DocumentDB further, additional details are available on the Amazon DocumentDB product and pricing pages. Users can create an Amazon DocumentDB cluster via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDK.