Game Developer’s Guide to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Part Three: Operation Best Practices

This article provides best practices for operating Amazon DocumentDB, a database service from AWS with MongoDB compatibility. It covers topics such as data protection, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Protecting data through encryption, role-based access control, AWS Secrets Manager for credentials rotation, AWS CloudTrail for activity logging, and auditing features
• Scaling strategies for read and write workloads, including use of replica instances, dynamic read preference, asymmetric workloads, and automatic storage scaling
• Monitoring options like Amazon CloudWatch metrics, profiler and auditing logs, Performance Insights, and event subscriptions
• Cost optimization tips such as billing alerts, stopping instances for non-prod environments, decoupling compute and storage, deactivating unused features, data archival strategies, and backup retention period management
• Code samples and resources for getting started with Amazon DocumentDB