Government research teams often face the challenge of scaling data-intensive platforms while maintaining reliability, availability and cost efficiency on limited staffing and budgets. MongoDB Atlas on AWS addresses these issues by providing a fully managed, highly scalable and globally distributed data platform that eliminates operational overhead and supports rapid growth, complex workloads and open data sharing at scale. This resource is shows how Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Materials Project modernized its architecture, improved uptime and supported over 616,000 global users by leveraging MongoDB Atlas and AWS cloud services.