MongoDB for AWS Marketplace is the high performance, document based data store that you love tuned and optimized for Amazon Web Services. Data in MongoDB is stored in JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas, providing flexibility during the development process. With built-in support for horizontal scalability, MongoDB allows users to build and grow their applications more rapidly. With auto-sharding, you can easily distribute data across many nodes. This AMI was built with MongoDB setup to use instance-based storage and is a great place to start for development and testing.