Spreading MongoDB across EC2 regions

Question

I want to distribute a sharded/replicated MongoDB setup across multiple of Amazon\'s EC2 regions. Is this traffic already encrypted by MongoDB or can I optionally set this up? O

Answer 1

If you're not running on EC2, these solutions aren't really an option. There is another way and that is to set up your own IaaS provider independent VPC. vCider has a solution for this that works well with Mongo as well as Cassandra. For Cassandra securing client/DB traffic is especially painful since there is no native encryption.

Good example of how this all works here:

http://www.vcider.com/vpc-deployments/secure-saas

As far as Cassandra goes, some benchmark info here.

http://blog.vcider.com/2011/09/virtual-networks-can-run-cassandra-up-to-60-faster/

With native encryption in the kernel you can run much faster.