--- title: "Amazon DocumentDB Backup and Recovery | Clumio by Commvault" type: "WebPage" language: "en-US" url: "https://www.commvault.com/clumio/workloads/amazon-documentdb" date: "2026-06-15T12:00:25-04:00" modified: "2026-07-21T13:53:49-04:00" description: "Protect Amazon DocumentDB workloads with immutable backups and rapid recovery from Clumio by Commvault. " image: "https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/clumio-thumbnail-1200x630-1.jpeg" breadcrumbs: - name: "Commvault Home" url: "https://www.commvault.com/" - name: "Clumio" url: "https://www.commvault.com/clumio" - name: "Workloads" url: "https://www.commvault.com/clumio/workloads" - name: "Amazon documentdb" --- # Clumio Workloads – Amazon DocumentDB Backup and Recovery CLUMIO BY COMMVATULT ## Protect Your Amazon DocumentDB Data from Disruption Clumio helps enterprises protect Amazon DocumentDB workloads with immutable backups, rapid recovery, and cloud-native operational resilience. [Try on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-hdul2n6jr5dou?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DocumentDB-hero.png) --- ## A Single Database Disruption Can Cascade Across Customer Facing Services. --- ## Operational mistakes impact application availability Accidental deletion, corruption, or configuration errors can affect customer. --- ## Customer-facing applications depend on DocumentDB Document databases increasingly power customer-facing. --- ## Recovery complexity slows response times Manual backup coordination and infrastructure management can extend downtime during incidents. --- ## What is Amazon DocumentDB? Amazon DocumentDB is a managed MongoDB-compatible document database service commonly used for modern cloud-native applications, APIs, analytics, and customer-facing workloads. Organizations rely on DocumentDB to support scalable applications and dynamic operational environments where uptime and data integrity are business critical. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/What-is-DocumentDB.png) --- ## Why DocumentDB Requires Dedicated Protection Amazon DocumentDB often powers customer-facing and operationally critical applications. ## Key Factors - Document databases support dynamic cloud-native applications and APIs - Ransomware and operational mistakes can disrupt customer experiences and business continuity - Native resilience capabilities do not address logical corruption, malicious deletion, or long-term recovery requirements ## Resulting Operational Impact - Application downtime during recovery events - Increased operational complexity restoring database environments - Increased business continuity and cyber resilience risk --- ## How Clumio Supports DocumentDB --- ## Ransomware Recovery Maintains immutable, air-gapped backup copies outside the production AWS account to help organizations recover from ransomware and other destructive events. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ransomware-resilience-888x550-1.png) --- ## Cluster-Consistent Recovery Captures cluster-consistent recovery points to help accurately restore the database state, enabling rapid recovery from outages, corruption, and accidental changes. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/consistent-recovery-888x550-1.png) --- ## Operational Simplicity Eliminates customer-managed backup infrastructure and manual maintenance tasks while supporting centralized SaaS-based policy management. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/operational-simplicity-888x550-1.png) --- ## Built for Cloud Environments Designed to support growing document database environments while automatically adapting as cloud-native applications scale. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cloud-scale-environments-888x550-1.png) --- ## Business Outcomes Helps organizations recover faster from outages and ransomware incidents, reduce disruption for customer-facing applications, gain greater visibility across protected cloud workloads, and lower the operational effort of managing backup infrastructure. ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/outcomes-888x550-1.png) --- ## Cyber Resilient Businesses Protect Their Cloud Data with Clumio - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Atlassian-color-logo.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AuditFile-color-logo.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CAVA-color-logo.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cox-Automotive-1.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shields-Health-color-logo.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/xyzt.ai_logo.png) --- > “Clumio does not consume any resources, and it does not affect our infrastructure. Yet it grows as much as we need it to. As much as our data grows, Clumio will serve that purpose.” > > Dimitar Aleksiev > > Director of IT, CAVA Group > “With Clumio Instant Access, if there were to be data loss, we could have our application back up in less than an hour. That’s a game changer. Before, it would have taken us days or weeks to restore our vast repositories of unstructured data. ” > > Mark Seitter > > Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis > “Clumio solves a really important problem for us – providing the peace of mind that if we had a catastrophic failure or ransomware event, we will be able to get back up and running.” > > Aaron Budge > > VP Production Engineering and IT, Parchment > “Using AWS Storage Lens, we confirmed that backups through Clumio were 66.7% cheaper than what we were paying previously. That validation came quickly, and it accelerated our internal approval to move forward. ” > > Lida Joly > > CEO, xyzt.ai --- ## Native Amazon DocumentDB vs Cloud-Native Protection | | Native Protection | Cloud-Native Protection | |---|---|---| | Stores backups in immutable, isolated environments | No | Yes | | Centralizes recovery workflows across AWS workloads | No | Yes | | Designed to support cloud-scale database recovery scenarios | No | Yes | --- ## Clumio’s Protection Capabilities for DocumentDB ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crocus-Icon-1.svg) --- Immutable, air-gapped DocumentDB backups ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crocus-Icon-2.svg) --- Cluster-consistent database recovery for MongoDB- compatible workloads ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crocus-Icon-3.svg) --- Cross-account and cross-region recovery ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crocus-Icon-4.svg) --- Centralized SaaS-based management --- ## Frequently Asked Questions How does Clumio protect Amazon DocumentDB workloads? Clumio uses immutable backups and cloud-native recovery workflows to help organizations recover Amazon DocumentDB environments after ransomware, outages, or operational mistakes Can Clumio help reduce downtime for DocumentDB applications? Yes. Clumio supports rapid recovery workflows designed to minimize disruption to customer-facing and operational applications. Is DocumentDB MongoDB compatible? Yes. Amazon DocumentDB is a MongoDB-compatible document database service designed for cloud-native applications and operational workloads. Why use immutable backups for Amazon DocumentDB? Immutable backups help organizations recover from ransomware, corruption, and accidental deletion using protected recovery points. Does Clumio support cross-account or cross-region DocumentDB recovery? Yes. Clumio supports restoring Amazon DocumentDB workloads across authorized AWS accounts and regions. --- ## Discover and Learn Resources ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Resource-a-888x500-2-2.jpg) eBook ## The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Challenges in AWS Backup From a data protection point of view, organizations are finding themselves in an environment that is very decentralized. [Read now about The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Challenges in AWS Backup](/resources/ebook/the-definitive-guide-to-overcoming-challenges-in-aws-backup) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Food-Dishes-Cava-Thumbnail-888-x-500-1.png) Customer Story ## Clumio and Cava Group Cava found success with Clumio, backing up hundreds of terabytes of vital data for the company in a scalable way. [Watch video about Clumio and Cava Group](/resources/video/clumio-and-cava-group-customer-story) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Engineer-working-in-home-office-Crocus-Thumbnail.png) Infographic ## The Total Economic Impact™ Of Clumio After interviews with decision-makers from four organizations, Forrester aggregated the data and concluded that Clumio has the following three-year financial impact on a composite organization. [View now about The Total Economic Impact™ Of Clumio](/resources/infographic/the-total-economic-impact-of-clumio) --- ## Clumio Data Risk Assessment Get deeper visibility into the risk posture of your Cloud data estate [Get free assessment](/clumio/data-risk-assessment) --- ## Clumio Documentation Explore guides, FAQs, and developer resources to help you protect to help you protect and manage your data with Clumio. 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