How to install MongoDB on linux AWS

The tutorial in the link in references helped much for this. The steps are fairly straight forward

1. mkdir mongodb
2. cd mongodb/
3. curl -O https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7.tgz
4. tar xvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7.tgz
5. mv mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7 mongodb
6. cd mongodb
7. echo $PATH
8. export PATH=$PATH:/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin
9. mkdir data
10. cd bin
11. ./mongod --dbpath /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data &

That's it, the DB is up.

Now we can even check the connection using the steps below

root@dev [~]# cd /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin/
root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# ./mongo
MongoDB shell version: 3.4.7
connecting to: test
> show dbs
admin  (empty)
local  0.078GB
> use journaldev
switched to db journaldev
> db.names.save({"id":123,"name":"Pankaj"})
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> db.names.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("53df918adbef24e88560fa5b"), "id" : 123, "name" : "Pankaj" }
> db.datas.save({})
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> show collections
datas
names
system.indexes
> show dbs
admin       (empty)
journaldev  0.078GB
local       0.078GB
> exit
bye
root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]#

References
https://www.journaldev.com/3849/install-mongodb-linux