AWS recently released a whitepaper describing the best practices for doing just this: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf http://media.amaz

AWS recently released a whitepaper describing the best practices for doing just this: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf [PDF]