Catalog and govern Amazon DocumentDB assets in Atlan for discovery and governance.
Amazon DocumentDB Public Preview
Overview: Catalog Amazon DocumentDB databases, collections, and inferred field schemas in Atlan for discovery and governance. Amazon DocumentDB is a MongoDB-compatible NoSQL database. Atlan reuses the native MongoDB asset model to catalog DocumentDB metadata, and assets appear under the DocumentDB connector in Atlan.
Unlike most Atlan connectors, Amazon DocumentDB can't be crawled directly from Atlan Cloud. DocumentDB clusters have no public endpoint by design—they're reachable only from within your VPC. You must catalog Amazon DocumentDB through Self-Deployed Runtime (SDR) deployed in the same VPC as your cluster. For why this is the only supported path, see Why is Amazon DocumentDB supported only through self-deployed runtime? in the FAQ.
SDR requires additional enablement and licensing. Contact your Atlan representative for details.
Get started
Follow these steps to connect and catalog Amazon DocumentDB assets in Atlan:
- Set up the connector: Create a database user with the permissions Atlan needs to extract metadata.
- Crawl Amazon DocumentDB assets: Configure and run metadata extraction from your DocumentDB cluster.
Concepts
- How Atlan connects to Amazon DocumentDB: Connection protocols, ports, and security.
References
- What does Atlan crawl from Amazon DocumentDB?: Learn about the DocumentDB assets and metadata that Atlan discovers and catalogs.
FAQ
- Connectivity and deployment: Understand why Amazon DocumentDB is supported only through Self-Deployed Runtime and where to deploy the runtime.
- Field extraction and schema inference: Find answers to questions about field extraction, schema inference, permissions, and configuration.