1. Are MongoDB’s costs still manageable as my data grows?

When evaluating costs, consider more than just direct licensing fees. Hidden expenses such as infrastructure scaling, over-provisioning, and support fees can significantly impact your budget.

It’s important to reassess how these costs scale with your data growth. Advanced features like security, backups, and analytics can also incur additional charges, making the total cost of ownership (TCO) higher than anticipated.

Consider: MongoDB Atlas used to display data transfer fees up until 2020. Now, these costs are deliberately obscured, making it difficult, if not impossible, to accurately predict the full scope of your cloud expenses. This can be a red flag when planning for future growth.