[merlynn]

MongoDB certainly can compete at scale with AWS with MongoDB Atlas - Managed Database as a Service.

[scarface74]

By hosting on AWS, Azure, and GCP...

And even then they don’t host your database in your own VPC which is a big deal to some companies.

[merlynn]

But with Atlas, you can VPC peer if you need that level of security and performance between your app and database. https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/security-vpc-peering/

[scarface74]

I agree with you. But, some security folks still don’t think that’s good enough. These are usually old school on prem security guys who don’t really get cloud.