what is the best option for ec2 shared storage for IIS [closed]

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We have about 300 sites, but the combined IIS root content is about 1TB. We'd like to use route53 failover for load balancers in two AZ's in the same region, and have the IIS web heads come up and down in an autoscaling group as needed.

1TB is a little much to attach to each autoscaling instance especially when traffic starts bringing up several instances in each AZ.

We are using a seperate pair of DFS boxes at the moment to achieve this, but I really feel like there's a better/higher performance way to achieve this.

What should we use to provide the fastest and most reliable shared storage to our IIS autoscaled nodes that can be replicated accross AZ's if needed?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try using CloudFront, it will eventually distribute your static content in all AWS regions (or not, you can tune this).

Reducing the load at your servers and lowering the response latency. Using this service you will save your servers resources and have time to migrate the static content into S3.

In addition, CloudFront setup is very straightforward.

In the other hand, if you are willing to persist on trying to use shared storage, EBS (Elastic Block Storage) cannot be mounted in more than one instance at the same time, then you cannot use it, but you still have at least 2 alternatives:

1. Create a new instance to be the fileserver, in this case you can try FreeNas or other equivalent solution, or even another windows server.
2. You might try to use a driver to mount an S3 bucket as a share using TNTDrive or WinS3Fs.

Answer 2

What about storing your files in S3. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/