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MongoDB migration at a glanceRoles and responsibilitiesCost and licensing

Overview

This section provides a summary of the migration environment, considerations, and assumptions; required skills; and associated costs and licenses.

MongoDB migration at a glance

Migration use cases

Single view, IoT, real-time analytics, mobile, personalization, catalog, content management, mainframe offloading, gaming

Workload

Source workload

MongoDB (self-managed) or MongoDB on mLab, ObjectRocket, or Compose

Source environment

Any MongoDB environment

Destination workload

MongoDB Atlas

Destination environment

MongoDB Atlas on AWS

Migration

Migration strategy (7 Rs)

Replatform

Is this an upgrade in workload version?

Not applicable. The version doesn’t affect migration.

Is the source workload different from the ISV workload?

No

Migration duration

3 days to 2 weeks (including all the tasks in the associated pattern). The duration might vary based on data size, application complexity, network bandwidth between source and target, and similar factors.

Quick Start to automatically provision workload infrastructure on AWS

Coming soon

Cost

Cost of running ISV workload on AWS

See MongoDB Pricing on the MongoDB website.

Assumptions and prerequisites

System limitations (minimum/maximum requirements)

No

Service-level agreements (SLAs)

For availability, see MongoDB Atlas Service Level Agreement on the MongoDB website.

Cluster durability depends on a cluster’s geographical deployment configuration.

For cluster limits, connection limits, organization and project limits, see Atlas Limitations on the MongoDB website.

Recovery time objectives (RTOs)

For information about how MongoDB Atlas automated backup features can meet your strict RTOs, see Reliability on the MongoDB website.

Recovery point objectives (RPOs)

For information about how MongoDB Atlas point-in-time recovery features satisfy RPOs, see Reliability and Cloud Backups on the MongoDB website.

Licensing and operating model for the target AWS account

SaaS

Migration tooling

Atlas Live Migration Service

AWS services used

Benchmarks

See MongoDB Benchmark on the MongoDB website.

Compliance

Compliance certifications

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC, EU-US Privacy Shield, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, PCI DSS. For details, see Trust Center on the MongoDB website.

Roles and responsibilities

The process for migrating data to MongoDB Atlas involves the following roles and expertise.

Role

Responsibilities

MongoDB DBA and application architect

  • Assess and size the workload.

  • Deploy the database and configure security settings.

  • Migrate and monitor the database.

  • Implement the cutover plan.

AWS architect

  • Advise and provision AWS services and infrastructure resources.

  • Establish AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for users and groups.

  • Provide security administration for all provisioned AWS services.

Cost and licensing

The pricing for MongoDB Atlas includes three types of costs:

  • Cluster configuration costs

  • Data transfer costs

  • Costs for subscriptions and additional services

For more information, see Billing in the MongoDB documentation.

MongoDB Atlas can be purchased directly from AWS Marketplace, which simplifies the billing process. You can choose from these two MongoDB offerings in AWS Marketplace:

AWS systems integration (SI) Partners can extend private offers to their customers to meet specific requirements or use cases. To extend a private offer, contact MongoDB.