Recently I came into a situation while deploying my app to heroku, I learned that heroku has an ephemeral storage, meaning that after every update to my api, all my uploads would be deleted.

So I investigated a little bit more of how I could keep my files and I finally got an answer: Use AWS S3 Storage.

Given that I had to use AWS and I didn't want to create an account (for laziness), I decided to just create one and instead of heroku and use and EC2 instance.

But now that I have configured my nginx, reverse proxy, ssl, etc, a question came to my mind. Should I use AWS S3 storage? Or Should I use the available space in the EC2 instance and just increase it when I need it?

My configuration is as follows: I have an API built using node.js and express, the app runs using pm2 and I configured a reverse proxy, so every time a user goes to a subdomain pointing to the ec2 instance, the reverse proxy listens in both port 80 and 443 and redirect the traffic to 127.0.0.1:5000

Now, the thing is that the user has to upload profile picture and some other files, and they are uploaded at the same level of my project.

-- Project Folder
   -- routes
   -- model
   -- upload // I have subfolders here, and uploads are uploaded here.
   -- index.js

So, should I leave my project as it is or should I change the way that my uploads work?