Upgrade Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 to 5.0 with near-zero downtime
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This article provides a step-by-step guide to upgrade Amazon DocumentDB from version 3.6 to 5.0 with near-zero downtime.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Existing upgrade options and their limitations
- Overview of the proposed near-zero downtime upgrade solution
- Prerequisites for the upgrade process
- Enabling change streams on the source 3.6 cluster
- Capturing the change stream token using the MVU CDC migrator tool
- Cloning the 3.6 cluster
- Performing an in-place major version upgrade on the cloned cluster to 5.0
- Replicating change data capture (CDC) from the source to the upgraded clone
- Switching application endpoint to the upgraded 5.0 clone
- Post-upgrade cleanup steps
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