Document History for the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide

  • API version: 2014-10-31
  • Latest documentation update: November 11, 2020

The following table describes the documentation for this release of the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide.

Change Description Date
Version 3.6 Upgrades Documented improvements to version 3.6 in role-based access controls, aggregation operators, and performance. January 15, 2021
MongoDB 4.0 Compatibility Amazon DocumentDB is now compatible with version 4.0 of MongoDB. November 9, 2020
Get Started Guides New Get Started Guides for getting started with Amazon DocumentDB using , Amazon EC2, Robo3T or Studio3T. August 15, 2020
Additional Availability Zones supported Amazon DocumentDB added support for an additional Availability Zone in Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2). July 14, 2020
Added support for copying snapshots across Regions. Amazon DocumentDB added support for copying cluster snapshots across AWS Regions. For more information, see Copying Snapshots Across Regions. July 10, 2020
Added support for T3 instance class. Added support for T3 instance types in all Regions supporting Amazon DocumentDB. For more information, see Supported Instance Classes by Region and Instance Class Specifications. June 30, 2020
Added support for AWS GovCloud (US). Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region (us-gov-west-1). June 29, 2020
Added 16 new CloudWatch metrics. Amazon DocumentDB added support for 16 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics. For more information, see Monitoring Amazon DocumentDB with CloudWatch. June 23, 2020
Added support for null characters and $regex operator. Amazon DocumentDB added support for null characters in strings and the ability to use an index for $regex. To view the supported MongoDB APIs and aggregation pipeline capabilities for Amazon DocumentDB, see Functional Differences with MongoDB. June 22, 2020
Added support for improved multi-key indexing capabilities. Amazon DocumentDB added support for improved multi-key indexing capabilities that include indexing of arrays larger than 2,048 bytes and the ability to create a compound multi-key index with multiple keys in the same array. For more information, see Functional Differences with MongoDB. April 23, 2020
Added support for deletion protection for an Amazon DocumentDB AWS CloudFormation stack. Amazon DocumentDB added support for enabling deletion protection when creating an Amazon DocumentDB AWS CloudFormation stack. April 20, 2020
Added support for role-based access control. Amazon DocumentDB added support for role-based access control using built-in roles. March 26, 2020
Added support for an additional Availability Zone in Canada (Central) (ca-central-1). Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Canada (Central) Region (ca-central-1) with R5 class instances and 3 Availability Zones. March 26, 2020
Added support for two additional MongoDB APIs. Amazon DocumentDB added support for $dateFromString and executionStats MongoDB APIs. March 23, 2020
Added support for five additional MongoDB APIs. Amazon DocumentDB added support for $objectToArray, $arrayToObject, $slice, $mod, and $range MongoDB APIs. February 6, 2020
Added support for Canada (Central). Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Canada (Central) Region (ca-central-1) with R5 class instances. December 11, 2019
Added support for ChangeStreamLogSize. Amazon DocumentDB added support for ChangeStreamLogSize for Cloudwatch metrics. November 22, 2019
Added support for Europe (Paris) region Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Europe (Paris) region (eu-west-3) with R5 class instances. October 30, 2019
Added support for Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region (ap-south-1) with R5 class instances. October 17, 2019
Added support for three additional MongoDB APIs Amazon DocumentDB added support for the $addFields, $concatArrays, and $lookup MongoDB APIs. October 16, 2019
Added support for Asia Pacific (Singapore) region Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region (ap-southeast-1) with R5 class instances. October 14, 2019
Added new document for updating TLS certificates Added instructions for updating CA certificates to use the new CA certificate to create TLS connections. October 2, 2019
Added API support for certificates Amazon DocumentDB a new Certificate data type for instances. For more information, see DBInstance. October 1, 2019
Support for query profiling Amazon DocumentDB added the ability to profile supported operations on your cluster’s instances and databases. August 19, 2019
Added third AZ in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Amazon DocumentDB added a third Availability Zone (AZ) for your compute instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). August 9, 2019
Support for additional Mongo APIs Added support for additional aggregation pipeline capabilities that include the $in, $isoWeek, $isoWeekYear, $isoDayOfWeek, and $dateToString aggregation operators and the $addToSet aggregation stage. Amazon DocumentDB also added support for the top() command for collection level diagnostics and the ability to modify the expireAfterSeconds parameter for TTL indexes using the collMod() command. July 31, 2019
Added support for Europe (London) Amazon DocumentDB is now available in Europe (London) (eu-west-2) with R5 class instances. July 18, 2019
Added code samples Added code examples in R and Ruby for programmatically connecting to Amazon DocumentDB. July 17, 2019
Added best practice Added a Best Practice to help you manage your Amazon DocumentDB costs. July 17, 2019
Support for stopping and starting a cluster Amazon DocumentDB added support for stopping and starting clusters to manage costs for development and test environments. July 1, 2019
Support for cluster deletion protection To protect your clusters from accidental deletion, Amazon DocumentDB added deletion protection. For more information, see the following topics: Creating an Amazon DocumentDB Cluster, Modifying an Amazon DocumentDB Cluster, Deleting an Amazon DocumentDB Cluster, and DeletionProtection in the API topic DBCluster. July 1, 2019
Functional differences update Added Implicit Transactions to Functional Differences. June 26, 2019
Functional differences addition Added note regarding storage and index compression in Amazon DocumentDB. June 13, 2019
Additional region supported Amazon DocumentDB is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2) with R5 class instances. June 5, 2019
R5 instance class supported in additional regions Added R5 instance class support for 4 additional regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). With this change, R5 instances are supported in all regions supporting Amazon DocumentDB. May 17, 2019
Additional regions supported Added support for 2 additional regions, Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) with R5 instance classes. For more information, see Supported Instance Classes by Region and Instance Class Specifications. May 8, 2019
Added more connection code examples Added code examples in Java and C# for connecting to Amazon DocumentDB. April 24, 2019
Additional Mongo API support Added support for seven aggregation string operators ($indexOfBytes, $indexOfCP, $strLenBytes, $strLenCP, $toLower, $toUpper, and $split), nine date-time operators ($dayOfYear, $dayOfMonth, $dayOfWeek, $year, $month, $hour, $minute, $second, and $millisecond), and the $sample aggregation pipeline stage. April 4, 2019
Added connection code examples Added code examples in Python, Node.js, PHP, and Go for connecting to Amazon DocumentDB. March 21, 2019
Support for Frankfurt Region and R5 instances Added support for Europe (Frankfurt) Region (eu-central-1) with R5 instance classes. For more information, see Supported Instance Classes by Region and Instance Class Specifications. March 13, 2019
Aggregation pipeline operators support Added support for new aggregation string operators ($concat, $substr, $substrBytes, $substrCP, $strcasecmp), an array aggregation operator ($size), an aggregation group accumulator operator ($push), and aggregation stages ($redact and $indexStats). We also added support for positional array operators ($[] and $[<identifier>]) and hint(). February 28, 2019
Engine upgrades Added documentation for determining pending cluster modifications and upgrading your cluster’s engine version. February 15, 2019
Auditing events Added support for auditing database events with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. February 12, 2019
Quick Start Added a Quick Start topic to help you easily start with Amazon DocumentDB using AWS CloudFormation. January 11, 2019
Public Release This is the initial public release of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). This release includes the Developer Guide and the integrated Resource Management API Reference. January 9, 2019