AWS Cloud Provider Snapshots
MongoDB Atlas is an automated cloud database service designed for agile teams who’d rather spend their time building apps than managing databases, backups, and restores. Today, we’re happy to announce that Cloud Provider Snapshots are now available for MongoDB Atlas replica sets on AWS. As the name suggests, Cloud Provider Snapshots provide fully managed backup storage and recovery using the native snapshot capabilities of the underlying cloud service provider.
Choosing a backup method for a database cluster in MongoDB Atlas
When this feature is enabled, MongoDB Atlas will perform snapshots against the primary in the replica set; snapshots are stored in the same cloud region as the primary, granting you control over where all your data lives. Please visit our documentation for more information on snapshot behavior.
Cloud Provider Snapshots on AWS have built-in incremental backup functionality, meaning that a new snapshot only saves the data that has changed since the previous one. This minimizes the time it takes to create a snapshot and lowers costs by reducing the amount of duplicate data. For example, a cluster with 10 GB of data on disk and 3 snapshots may require less than 30 GB of total snapshot storage, depending on how much of the data changed between snapshots.
Cloud Provider Snapshots are available for M10 clusters or higher in all of the 15 AWS regions where you can deploy MongoDB Atlas clusters.
Free, $9, and $25 MongoDB Atlas clusters now available in Singapore & Mumbai
We’re committed to lowering the barrier to entry to MongoDB Atlas and allowing developers to build without worrying about database deployment or management. Last week, we released a 14% price reduction on all MongoDB Atlas clusters deployed in AWS Mumbai. And today, we’re excited to announce the availability of free and affordable database cluster sizes in South and Southeast Asia on AWS .
Free M0 Atlas clusters, which provide 512 MB of storage for experimentation and early development, can now be deployed in AWS Singapore and AWS Mumbai. If more space is required, M2 and M5 Atlas clusters, which provide 2 GB and 5 GB of storage, respectively, are now also available in these regions for just $9 and $25 per month.