Unleashing the Power of MongoDB Atlas and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Innovative Applications

Steve Jurczak
November 14, 2023 | Updated: November 15, 2023
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When you use MongoDB Atlas on AWS, you can focus on driving innovation and business value, instead of managing infrastructure. The combination of MongoDB Atlas, the premier developer data platform, and AWS, the largest global public cloud provider empowers organizations to create scalable and intelligent applications while streamlining their data infrastructure management.

With MongoDB Atlas and AWS, building GenAI-powered applications is far simpler. MongoDB Vector Search enables developers to build intelligent applications powered by semantic search and generative AI over any type of data. Organizations can use their proprietary application data and vector embeddings to enhance foundation models like large language models (LLMs) via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This approach reduces hallucinations and delivers personalized user experiences while scaling applications seamlessly to meet evolving demands and maintaining top-tier security standards.

MongoDB real-world use cases

MongoDB helped Forbes accelerate provisioning, maintenance, and disaster-recovery times. Plus, the flexible data structures of MongoDB's document data model allows for faster development and innovation. In another example, a popular convenience store chain reported 99.995% uptime, freeing up its engineers and allowing them to focus on building innovative solutions thanks to Atlas Device Sync. Working with MongoDB helped functional food company MuscleChef transition from a food and beverage business with a website to a data-driven company that leverages customer insights to continuously improve and scale user experience, new product development, operations and logistics, marketing, and communications. Since working with MongoDB, repeat customer orders have surged 49%, purchase frequency saw a double-digit increase, and average order value is 50% higher than its largest competitors.

Thousands of customers have been successful running MongoDB Atlas on the robust infrastructure offered by AWS. No-code enterprise application development platform Unqork helps businesses build apps rapidly without writing a line of code. Using MongoDB Atlas, the platform ingests data from multiple sources at scale and pushes it to applications and third-party services. Volvo Connect enables drivers and fleet managers to track trucks, activities, and even insights using a single administrative portal. The versatility and performance of Atlas combined with the AWS global cloud infrastructure helps the business connect critical aspects of their business in completely new ways.

Verizon also opted to run Atlas on AWS to unlock the full power of its 5G mobile technology by moving compute elements to the network edge, making the user experience faster.

A unified approach to data handling

The Atlas developer data platform integrates all of the data services you need to build modern applications that are highly available, performant at global scale, and compliant with the most demanding security and privacy standards within a unified developer experience. With MongoDB Atlas running on AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure, organizations can leverage a single platform to store, manage, and process data at scale, allowing them to concentrate on building intelligent applications and driving business value. Atlas handles transactional data, app-driven analytics, full-text search, generative AI and vector search workloads, stream data processing, and more, all while reducing data infrastructure sprawl and complexity.

MongoDB Atlas is available in 27 AWS regions. This allows organizations to deliver fast and consistent user experiences in any region and replicate data across multiple regions to reach end-users globally with high performance and low latency. Additionally, the ability to store data in specific zones ensures compliance with data sovereignty requirements.

Security is paramount for both MongoDB Atlas and AWS. MongoDB Atlas is secure by default. It leverages built-in security features across your entire deployment. Atlas helps organizations comply with FedRAMP certification and regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, and more. It offers robust security measures, like our groundbreaking queryable encryption, which enables developers to run expressive queries on the encrypted data.

MongoDB Atlas also enhances developer productivity with its fully managed developer data platform on AWS. It offers a unified interface/API for all data and application services, seamlessly integrating into development and deployment workflows. MongoDB Atlas also integrates with Amazon CodeWhisperer. This powerful combination accelerates developer innovation for a seamless coding experience, improved efficiency, and exceptional business growth.

Conclusion

MongoDB Atlas and AWS have worked together for almost a decade to offer a powerful solution for organizations looking to innovate and build intelligent applications. By simplifying data management, enhancing security, and providing a unified developer experience, they ensure that organizations can focus on what truly matters: driving innovation and delivering exceptional user experiences. If you're ready to get started, MongoDB Atlas is available in the AWS Marketplace, and you have the option to start with a free tier.

Get started with MongoDB Atlas on AWS today.

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No matter the future, developers will build it. This is the fundamental message for MongoDB’s Love Your Developers campaign, which we created to celebrate, recognize, and support all that developers have done and continue to do. When the campaign launched earlier this year, it took a more historical view on how developers have shaped the history of computing from its earliest days — even before computers were invented. We wanted to show that — even in the eras when hardware was the primary focus — programming language pioneers, like Grace Hopper, and innovative engineers, like Jerry Lawson, fundamentally shaped the future through software. (To read more about the campaign, and why we launched it, check out our announcement blog article .) Introducing the MongoDB Developer Spotlight Series Just like in the past, today’s technologies aren’t developed in a vacuum. It takes entire teams of developers — experimenting, innovating, testing — to build and deploy applications that transform how we interact with the world. That is why we’re introducing our MongoDB Developer Spotlight Series. Our aim is to celebrate the diversity of experiences and approaches that exist among and throughout the global developer community. To do this, we will highlight stories from today’s community champions, developer advocates, newbies, senior engineers — and more. It’s our hope that these stories will help inspire the next generation of developers who will further shape our future. In this new series, we’ll introduce you to developers like Trina Yau. Trina went from being a pharmacist to a software engineer at Cisco. While initially concerned about her nontraditional background, she was later told by recruiters that her unique journey was a strength, rather than a weakness. This revelation showed her that, in order to become a developer, one must only possess a curious mind. In other words, there is no singular path to working in software. In a forthcoming post, Trina (who is also a MongoDB Community Creator) will share with us why developing isn’t just a way to earn a living, but a way to connect with people and share experiences through technology. This series will also spotlight developers like Justin Jenkins, who is a Software Development Engineer at Pushpay and a MongoDB Community Creator. He got his start at an early age, building his own computers and coding in BASIC - before he even knew that developing was a thing. In a future post, Justin will share tips based on his own experiences. For example, in his view, newbie developers know more than they think when it comes to getting started. Through MongoDB’s social channels, we’ll share all of these developers’ insights, tips, advice, and origin stories. So stay tuned. And let us know what you think. #LoveYourDevelopers Because no matter what the future holds, it’s developers who will build it. If you’d like to learn how you can get involved in MongoDB’s own Developer Community, head on over to our Community Forum . There, you’ll find updates, announcements, and ways to interact with other developers.
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It’s hard to believe that another year is almost over! 2024 was a transformative year for MongoDB, and it was marked by both innovation and releases that further our commitment to empowering customers, developers, and partners worldwide. So without further ado, let’s dive into MongoDB’s 2024 highlights. We’ll also share our executive team’s predictions of what 2025 might have in store. A look back at 2024 MongoDB 8.0: The most performant version of MongoDB ever In October we released MongoDB 8.0 , the fastest, most resilient, secure, and reliable version of MongoDB yet. Architectural optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 have significantly improved the database’s performance, with 36% faster reads and 59% higher throughput for updates. Our new architecture also makes horizontal scaling cheaper and faster. 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