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Update a Federated Database Instance Region
You can change the AWS region through which your federated database instance requests are routed. By default, Data Federation requests are routed through the region that is closest to your client application. The region that is closest to your application may be different from the regions that house your data stores.
Note
If you change the AWS region through which your federated database instance requests are routed, you must update your federated database instance connection string with the new hostname. This change ensures that your requests are routed through the new region.
Required Access
To update your federated database instance region, you must have Project Owner
access to the project.
Users with Organization Owner
access must add themselves as a Project Owner
to the project before setting up a private endpoint.
Procedure
To change the AWS region through which your federated database instance requests are routed, do the following in the Atlas CLI or Atlas UI: