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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0

Published
April 20, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-documentdb-mongodb-in-place-version-upgrade-5-0-to-8-0/

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Supports in-place major version upgrade (MVU) from version 5.0 to 8.0. Upgrade with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or via the AWS SDK or AWS CLI — no new clusters, no endpoint changes, and no index rebuilds required.

Upgrading to version 8.0 delivers performance and cost improvements: query latency improves by up to 7x and storage compression improves by up to 5x, so your applications run faster on less storage, reducing your costs. Version 8.0 also adds new capabilities including collation, views, new aggregation stages and operators, enhanced text search with text index v2, and vector index builds that are up to 30x faster.

In-place MVU from version 5.0 to 8.0 is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 is available, at no additional cost.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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