Home icon

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

News

This article announces that Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place major version upgrades from version 5.0 to 8.0.

  • In-place upgrade requires no new clusters, endpoint changes, or index rebuilds
  • Query latency improves by up to 7x with version 8.0
  • Storage compression improves by up to 5x, reducing costs
  • New features include collation, views, and enhanced text search capabilities
  • Vector index builds are up to 30x faster
  • Available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost

In summary, Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 upgrades are now seamless and deliver significant performance and cost improvements.

Go to article

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.

Related articles

Nov 14
2025
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
May 21
2026
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on DocumentDB 8.0
Jul 14
2026
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for 46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
Jul 10
2026
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.