Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Clusters in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, providing disaster recovery and low-latency global reads across regions for sensitive data and regulated workloads with federal, state, or local government compliance requirements.

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<p>Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions, which are isolated AWS Regions designed for regulated workloads and sensitive data with US government compliance requirements.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Global Clusters in AWS GovCloud Regions provide disaster recovery from region-wide outages and enable low-latency global reads from the nearest region</li>
<li>Global Clusters use fast, storage-based replication across regions with latencies typically less than one second</li>
<li>In case of regional degradation, a secondary region can be promoted to full read/write capabilities, typically in less than one minute</li>
<li>Global Clusters is available starting DocumentDB v4.0, and can be set up through the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI</li>
<li>Conclusion: For more information on getting started, documentation and pricing details are provided</li>
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports Global Clusters in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

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