Last June we introduced MongoDB Atlas, the database as a service for MongoDB. Atlas is designed in accordance with all of the best practices for managing MongoDB, so using it is like getting a professional MongoDB Ops team on your side. It is the easiest and most cost effective way to run MongoDB in the cloud, and it is already helping thousands of teams -- from innovative startups like Bond to established industry leaders like eHarmony and Thermo Fisher -- to build apps more efficiently by making database management as easy as possible.
We’re incredibly excited by the success our customers have had with Atlas so far, and today I’d like to share some updates to the service that will make it even easier to get started with Atlas.
Making Atlas data migrations simple with MongoMirror
It’s a cinch to spin up a MongoDB cluster with Atlas, but if you’re already running an application, you still have to migrate data, which until now has been a manual process. Today we’re introducing a new utility called MongoMirror that automates that process. MongoMirror will live migrate data to MongoDB Atlas from any pre-existing MongoDB 3.0+ replica set, making it even easier to get your existing applications migrated to Atlas.
Get MongoDB in the cloud for free with the new M0 tier
We’re also making it easier than ever to experiment with a real cloud environment for MongoDB. The new “M0” cluster type is a free cluster, ideal for learning MongoDB or building a prototype. Like our existing cluster types, the M0 tier has optimal security, availability, and managed upgrades by default.
More to come
The M0 tier and MongoMirror remove even more barriers between developers and execution of their ideas. Now you can get started with MongoDB Atlas for free, migrate without downtime, and scale up as you need, completely seamlessly. In the coming months, we’ll be bringing MongoDB Atlas to the Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure, and we’re actively working on even more tools to seamlessly migrate existing workloads to MongoDB Atlas, so stay tuned.
About the Author - Eliot Horowitz
Eliot Horowitz is CTO and Co-Founder of MongoDB. Eliot is one of the core MongoDB kernel committers. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of ShopWiki. Eliot developed the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of its innovative technology. He has quickly become one of Silicon Alley's up and coming entrepreneurs and was selected as one of BusinessWeek's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25 nationwide in 2006. Earlier, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick (acquired by Google for $3.1 billion). Eliot received a BS in Computer Science from Brown University.