Need a recommendation for shared storage on auto-scaling ec2 w/ scalr

Solution 1:

This is a common issue when moving to EC2. Your options are one of the following:

1. S3

   • Use s3fs as mentioned but you may suffer performance issues
   • Rewrite the application to store user content on S3 rather than disk.
     • You application could proxy the request to S3 or
     • You could get your client to upload directly to S3 using pre-signed URLS.
     • User could then be directed to retrieve content directly from S3.

2. Use a clustered filesystem such a Gluster.

3. Use 2 x dedicated NFS servers in Active/Passive using a DRBD backend.

EDIT 20160705

AWS now offers Elastic File System (EFS) in a number of regions. EFS is a hosted NFS service, effectively giving you a NAS as a Service.