Deploy MongoDB on Amazon Web Services

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Deploy MongoDB on Amazon Web Services

In this lab, students are asked to deploy a MongoDB server on Amazon Web Services. After completing this lab, students will have hands-on experience with deploying compute instances in AWS and installing a self-managed MongoDB cluster.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 25, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Connect to the Amazon Web Service Web Console

Use the login information provided in the lab to connect to the web console in an Incognito or Private browser window.
Challenge

Deploy a Compute Engine Instance

Using the EC2 service, launch an instance named mongodb. Choose the free tier Amazon Linux 2023 image on a t2.micro instance type.
Challenge

Connect to the Instance and Install MongoDB
- Connect using the private key.
- Create the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-7.0.repo with the following content:
  [mongodb-org-7.0] name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2023/mongodb-org/7.0/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-7.0.asc
- Install the mongodb-mongosh-shared-openssl3 mongodb-org packages.
- Start the mongod service.
- Check the status of the mongod service.
- Connect via mongosh.

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