# Managing Amazon DocumentDB instances
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The following topics provide information to help you manage your Amazon DocumentDB instances. They include details about instance classes and statuses, and how to create, delete, and modify an instance.

**Topics**
+ [Determining an instance's status](#db-instance-status)
+ [Instance lifecycle](db-instance-life-cycle.md)
+ [Managing instance classes](db-instance-classes.md)
+ [NVMe-backed instances](db-instance-nvme.md)

## Determining an instance's status
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To see the valid instance statuses, their meaning, and how to determine the status of your instances, see [Monitoring an Amazon DocumentDB instance's status](monitoring_docdb-instance_status.md).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon DocumentDB. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query documentdb` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).