Amazon DocumentDB Price Comparison

Amazon DocumentDB instance pricing is more expensive than MongoDB Atlas, the fully managed MongoDB service. AWS DocumentDB starts at $200 per month for a single instance, with no free tier. Pricing is per instance-hour consumed, from the time an instance is launched until it is stopped or deleted. Partial instance hours are billed in one-second increments, but there is a 10-minute minimum charge following a billable status change such as creating, modifying, or deleting an instance.

Compare this with MongoDB Atlas, which has a perpetual free tier and starts at $9/mo for shared clusters, and around $60/mo for dedicated clusters.

The pricing comparison below is based on a default 3-node DocumentDB and MongoDB Atlas cluster, with backup storage equal to cluster storage. MongoDB Atlas is 8% to 19% less expensive.

*Pricing calculated January 2019

Convenience of a Single AWS Bill MongoDB Atlas is available via the AWS Marketplace, providing streamlined procurement along with all other AWS services. Buying Atlas through the Marketplace enables customers to benefit from:

• Consolidated billing through their AWS account

• Retirement of their Amazon Enterprise Discount Program commitment

• Simplified procurement with just a few clicks

• Integration with AWS Marketplace catalogs and reports

• A designated advisor from the AWS Marketplace team