AI app development is rewriting the database market

The database market is experiencing a significant shift from providing isolated data layers to becoming a key resource for AI application development.

A prime example of this can be seen in database vendor MongoDB Inc., which is attracting AI developers and entrepreneurs by offering MongoDB Atlas, its unified data platform, on AWS Marketplace. Organizations are racing to modernize and build AI-powered apps, which means they need the simplest stack possible. With Atlas on AWS Marketplace, enterprise developers have access to a unified, AI-ready data platform that is already integrated with key services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q Developer.

“The database market is truly undergoing its most significant transformation in decades,” said Olivier Zieleniecki (pictured), global vice president of worldwide partnerships at MongoDB. “Databases are no longer a passive system of record. They’ve become the active memory layer for AI-native and agentic applications. For MongoDB, this is a massive opportunity.”

Zieleniecki spoke with Christophe Bertrand, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, during an interview for the AWS Marketplace Series on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how MongoDB’s deployment on AWS Marketplace will provide a key data foundation for AI, unifying operational, analytical and AI workloads in a single database platform. (* Disclosure below.)

Value for the database market

The integration of Atlas with existing AWS services is a critical component of the MongoDB offering on AWS Marketplace. Speed matters in today’s AI development world, and the ability to shorten time from idea to impact has value for many organizations.

“That race to AI is critically important,” Zieleniecki said. “Now teams can move from experimentation to production on a unified AI-ready data platform that already fits with AWS architecture. It’s plugged into AI services such as Bedrock and [Q Developer], and that’s being done instead of stitching together multiple databases or search engines and vector stores.”

MongoDB has structured its Atlas offering on AWS Marketplace with an eye toward simplifying the cost model for users. Customers can “burn down” or spend existing AWS commitments against consumption under a single agreement, according to Zieleniecki.

“There is no separate contract, no new procurement cycle,” he noted. “It’s really providing ease of use for our customers. Our listing burns down a customer’s existing AWS commitment against consumption, and it fits directly into their AWS commercial strategy. A customer can get Atlas or any of the AWS services all lying under the same agreement.”

The availability of Atlas on AWS Marketplace is generating new customer use cases. In the financial and healthcare sectors, organizations are moving to an AI-driven stack on Atlas for app modernization and streamlined workflows, Zieleniecki explained.

“In the banking world, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank … modernized 30 or 32 banking applications in just 30 days using joint AWS and MongoDB modernization tooling,” he said. “Novo Nordisk, as well, used Atlas with Amazon Bedrock to cut a 12-week clinical reporting workflow down to roughly 12 minutes. That’s really the value that you will get from leveraging MongoDB on these modernization use cases and to build new AI applications.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Marketplace Series:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Marketplace Series. Neither AWS, the sponsor of theCUBE’s coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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