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Indexes - Amazon DocumentDB
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Indexes

Indexes improve query performance by allowing Amazon DocumentDB to quickly locate documents without scanning every document in a collection. You can create indexes on fields that your application queries frequently to reduce latency and I/O costs.

For additional index-related topics, see: