Atlas deployment options tailored for your needs

Atlas Infinite is a new deployment option within MongoDB Atlas, not a new database to adopt. It runs the same MongoDB database on the same document model, with the same APIs, drivers, security protocols, and operational tooling you use today. No code changes, no application rewrites, no migration project.

What changes is how the database runs underneath. Atlas Core uses a traditional attached-storage architecture with fixed, dedicated resources. Atlas Infinite decouples compute and storage so each scales independently, which is what delivers rapid elasticity, up to 128TB per shard, and zero-knowledge security. Both are deployment options within the Atlas platform, and you choose the right one per workload.

Use Atlas Infinite when you expect volatile demand, rapidly growing datasets, or AI- and agent-heavy workloads that need elastic compute and high storage ceilings. Use Atlas Core when workloads are steady, you prefer pinned resources and predictable spend, and you want dedicated hardware for transactional and line-of-business services.

As of MongoDB’s initial Public Preview launch, Atlas Infinite is available on AWS, with support for additional cloud providers coming soon.

No. Atlas Infinite uses the same MongoDB API, drivers, and operational tooling as Atlas Core, so applications that already connect to MongoDB do not require application code changes. The main differences are architectural—how compute and storage scale and how capacity is managed—not how your application talks to the database.

Atlas Infinite splits pricing by resource: storage is purely consumption-based, metered by the actual data you store, so you're never paying for idle capacity. Compute, however, is billed at a reserved instance tier for your running cluster, not by query volume or usage. Atlas Core follows a provision-based model for both compute and storage, where you reserve fixed cluster sizes for a predictable monthly bill. Both deployment options use the same Atlas billing experience; the difference is how tightly spend tracks real demand.

Atlas Infinite runs compute in a per-customer VPC and encrypts data and metadata at the compute layer before anything reaches the shared storage system. That means other tenants cannot access your environment, and the underlying cloud platform cannot see your collections, contents, or access patterns. You get the efficiency of shared storage while aligning with strict zero-trust and data sovereignty requirements.