# Using an Amazon DocumentDB database as a target for homogeneous data migrations in AWS DMS
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You can use an Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) database and DocumentDB Elastic cluster as a migration target for homogeneous data migrations in AWS DMS. 

To run homogeneous data migrations for an Amazon DocumentDB target, you can create either a user account with administrator privileges, or a user with read/write permissions only on the database to migrate.

Homogeneous data migrations supports all of the BSON data types that Amazon DocumentDB supports. For a list of these data types, see [ Data Types ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/mongo-apis.html#mongo-apis-data-types) in the *Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide*.

To use shard features of DocumentDB Elastic cluster for migrating non-sharded collection from the source, create a shard collection to migrate prior to starting the data migration task. For more information about shard collection in an Amazon DocumentDB Elastic cluster, see [ Step 5: Shard your collection ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/elastic-get-started.html#elastic-get-started-step6) in the *Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide*.

For an Amazon DocumentDB target, AWS DMS supports the `none` or `require` SSL modes.