Traditionally, organizations depended on monolithic architectures that initially served them well, but today’s on-demand business environment calls for a model that can support a more flexible, microservices-driven approach, and facilitate the pace of innovation. This eBook covers the evolution of data management and application environments, contributing factors to modern application requirements, common customer challenges with traditional database technologies, and presents the value of document databases and Amazon DocumentDB. We will also highlight Amazon DocumentDB customer use cases, target workloads, new features, migration programs, and key resources to get started.