Perform an Offline Migration of a MongoDB Instance to Amazon DocumentDB

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Perform an Offline Migration of a MongoDB Instance to Amazon DocumentDB

In this lab, you will perform an offline migration of a MongoDB database to an Amazon DocumentDB cluster. After completing this lab, you will have hands-on experience with performing an offline migration using the `mongodump` and `mongorestore` commands.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 15, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Dump the Collection Data

Dump the collection named library from the source MongoDB instance at mongodb://10.0.0.101:27017.
Challenge

Create the Index

Create an index on the author field of the library database on the DocumentDB cluster.
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Restore the Collection Data

Restore the collection data dumped from the source to the DocumentDB cluster.
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Test the New Endpoint

Test the connection to the DocumentDB cluster, and provide the new endpoint to the application administrators.

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