Issue Uploading Files from Rails app hosted on Elastic Beanstalk

Question

I have a Rails 3 app that I\'m developing locally and deploying on Amazon\'s Elastic Beanstalk for production. There\'s several places in my app where images can be uploade

Answer 1

Have you considered direct uploading images into s3 instead? Uploads to the server in Elastic Beanstalk kind of go against the spirit of the thing (file can be deleted if the instance vanishes, the next request could be received by a different instance, etc). I'm not a sys-admin guy either and I'm using elastic beanstalk for the same reason.

Basically I'm trying to say that by moving to uploading directly into s3 you should be able to leave your servers serving, your database basing the data and your file store store you files. Then hopefully you can be immune from this nonsense :)