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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is Generally Available

Posted on: Aug 12, 2025

Today, we announce the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless in China. Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). Amazon DocumentDB is a serverless, fully managed, MongoDB API–compatible document database service. Amazon DocumentDB Serverless automatically scales capacity up or down in fine-grained increments based on your application's demand, offering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity.

For applications with variable workloads, Amazon DocumentDB Serverless offers simplified resource management, with no upfront commitments or additional costs, so you only pay for the database capacity used. It provides the same MongoDB compatible-APIs and capabilities as Amazon DocumentDB, including read replicas, Performance Insights, and I/O-Optimized. Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is ideal for a broad set of applications with variable, multi-tenant, or mixed use (read/write) workloads. For example, enterprises that have thousands of applications, or software as a service (SaaS) vendors that have multi-tenant environments with hundreds or thousands of databases, can use Amazon DocumentDB Serverless to manage database capacity across their entire fleet of databases. Additionally, you can build agentic AI applications that benefit from its native vector search and serverless adaptability to handle dynamically invoked agentic AI workflows. Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is available starting with Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 for both new and existing clusters.

Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 is available on graviton instances in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is available. For information on pricing, visit Amazon DocumentDB Pricing.

To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, see the DocumentDB Serverless page and documentation. Get started in just a few steps in the Amazon Web Services Management Console.