MongoDB Atlas and AWS CloudFormation

MongoDB Atlas is the global cloud database service for modern applications. Deploy fully managed MongoDB across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with best-in-class automation and proven practices that guarantee availability, scalability, and compliance with security standards. Use MongoDB’s robust ecosystem of drivers, integrations, and tools to build faster and spend less time on operations and database administration.

The Atlas CLI is a unified command line tool for MongoDB Atlas. You can use the Atlas CLI to create and manage MongoDB Atlas resources from your command line and easily automate them using scripts.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. You can run MongoDB Atlas on AWS by setting up a cluster or live-migrate an existing MongoDB deployment using the Atlas Live Migration Service.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) service that helps you model and set up your MongoDB Atlas resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications. CloudFormation lets users create and manage AWS, MongoDB Atlas, and other Third Party resources directly from templates which provide dependable out of the box blueprint deployments for any kind of cloud app.

Developers can deploy and update, compute, database, and many other resources in a simple, declarative style that abstracts away the complexity of specific resource APIs. AWS CloudFormation is designed to allow resource lifecycles to be managed repeatedly, predictable, and safely, while allowing for automatic rollbacks, automated state management, and management of resources across accounts and regions. Recent enhancements and options allow for multiple ways to create resources, including using AWS CDK for coding in higher-level languages, importing existing resources, detecting configuration drift, and a new Registry that makes it easier to create custom types that inherit many core CloudFormation benefits.

You can learn more at AWS CloudFormation FAQs.

First, users can directly leverage MongoDB Atlas resources from the CloudFormation Public Registry.

Next, teams can create Atlas environments through their AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) within AWS.

Finally, by leveraging our AWS Partner Solutions Deployment (formally AWS Quick Starts). Partner Solutions are automated reference deployments built by AWS solutions architects and AWS Partners.

Resources can be found at MongoDB’s Atlas Github for AWS CloudFormation.

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure as code with modern programming languages and deploying it through AWS CloudFormation.

Use the AWS CDK framework to author AWS CDK projects, which are executed to generate CloudFormation templates. AWS CDK projects can be executed using the AWS CDK command line or in a continuous delivery system.

AWS CDK is generally available in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go.

You can learn more at AWS Cloud Development kit FAQs.

No, CloudFormation only deploys MongoDB Atlas clusters to AWS Cloud. For Azure or Google Cloud support, we suggest either our Terraform Atlas Provider or CDK.