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AWS documentdb documentation change

Service: documentdb · 2026-06-04 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/devguide/elastic-best-practices.md

Summary

Added guidance about avoiding cluster state changes during shard scaling operations

Security assessment

The change focuses on operational reliability during scaling. No security implications are mentioned.

Diff

diff --git a/documentdb/latest/devguide/elastic-best-practices.md b/documentdb/latest/devguide/elastic-best-practices.md
index 317605b2b..103ef2677 100644
--- a//documentdb/latest/devguide/elastic-best-practices.md
+++ b//documentdb/latest/devguide/elastic-best-practices.md
@@ -74,0 +75,2 @@ The following list describes guidelines for scaling your elastic clusters.
+  * Changing the number of shards can take time because data has to be safely moved from one shard to another. To minimize risk of errors, we recommend not stopping or making any other changes to the cluster state while the change is in progress.
+