MongoDB Atlas for Government Considerations
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MongoDB Atlas for Government is a a fully-managed cloud database for the U.S. government (federal agencies and state, local, and education (SLED) entities). When you are logged into the MongoDB Atlas for Government console, an indicator at the top of the page displays:
Much of the information and many of the procedures in the Atlas documentation hold true for AtlasGov, but there are key differences. Review the following sections to understand the restrictions and limitations of the MongoDB Atlas for Government environment.
AtlasGov Accounts
To create a AtlasGov account, you must purchase a subscription or be invited by an active user. Invitations are sent by email.
AtlasGov accounts and user sessions are subject to additional security precautions.
To learn more about AtlasGov accounts, see AtlasGov User Access.
Supported Features
AtlasGov supports a subset of Atlas features and some unique features.
For a list of features compared to Atlas, see Supported Features.
Available Regions
AtlasGov allows you to deploy clusters in government regions that meet more stringent security standards.
You must designate projects for either standard or government (
gov) region usage upon creation. You cannot deploy clusters across government and standard regions in the same project.
To learn more about the regions available for AtlasGov deployments, see Supported Cloud Providers and Regions.
To learn more about AWS gov regions, see the
AWS documentation.
Clusters
AtlasGov clusters must be tier M20 or higher. Atlas does not support
free, flex, and shared clusters .
To learn how to deploy an AtlasGov cluster, see Create a Cluster.
Security
Database Users
AtlasGov database users who authenticate with
SCRAM must use SCRAM-SHA-256.
To learn more about AtlasGov database users, see Database Users.
Network Security
AtlasGov uses TLS 1.2 to encrypt connections. This cannot be disabled.
Some security features have AtlasGov-specific restrictions.
To learn more about network security in AtlasGov, see Security.
Alerts and Communications
You receive emails from a different MongoDB account depending on the region to which your resources are deployed and the type of communication.
AWS GovCloud and GCP Assured Workloads Regions
Alerts come from
mongodb-atlasgov-alerts@mongodb.com.All other emails come from
mongodb-atlasgov-support@mongodb.com.
AWS Standard
Alerts come from
mongodb-cloud-alerts@mongodb.com.All other emails come from
mongodb-cloud-support@mongodb.com.
Support
Deployments in AWS GovCloud and GCP Assured Workloads regions benefit from additional support guarantees. To learn more, see Support.