How to achieve amazon EC2 shared volume without (or with) AWS S3?

Question

I currently have a CMS (EpiServer) system up and running on 3 EC2 Windows instances on AWS, behind a load balancer.

They are all connected to a database, so the data that is written is synchronized correctly.

Problem

The problem is that, if someone upload any images, the images are only uploaded to one of the EC2 instances.

So i need a way of getting a shared EBS volume between the instances that i setup.

Tried

I tried by using AWS SDK and Geta.AmazonS3 library, but i met some problems regarding page files virtual path provider (see unanswered: StackOverflow question ).

One solution So i've tried to find another way to do this, and thought that i could see if there are som mounting possibilities for AWS S3. I found TNTdrive , which does the job, it mounts my S3 bucket as a windows volume, and the CMS system accepted it.

I'm just afraid that it makes unnecessary requests and the cost(price) of it(I would prefer open source :) ).

Question:

So my question is: Does anybody know of an open source program that do the same, or another posibility? I have not read too much about AWS Storage Gateway , but could that do what i need?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can mount S3 bucket onto all your 3 EC2 instances. It's a 2-way mount so all your files will be synchronized. You could use s3f3 to do the mounting.

I used this guide and set up mine pretty quick: Mount S3 onto EC2