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Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0

Published
November 14, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/documentdb-8-o

Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 Release

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces version 8.0, offering compatibility with MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. This release improves query latency by up to 7x and compression ratio by up to 5x.

New Features and Capabilities

  • Compatibility: Support for MongoDB 8.0 API drivers.
  • Planner Version 3: New query planner with aggregation pipeline optimizations.
  • Aggregation Stages and Operators: 6 new stages and 3 new operators.
  • Compression: Dictionary-based compression with Zstandard algorithm.
  • Collation and Views: Support for collation and views.
  • Text Index v2: Enhanced text search capabilities.
  • Vector Search: Parallel vector index build reduces index build time by up to 30x.

What to do

  • Upgrade your DocumentDB 5.0 clusters to 8.0 using AWS DMS.
  • Learn more about the upgrade process in the documentation.

Source: AWS release notes




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