I need to provide an alternative solution for AWS EFS as the service is not available in our region. I can provide performance requirements if that determines the recommended solution although I've read the following page and s3fuse is apparently a possible solution.
Has anyone used this in production and with what limitations have you experienced?
https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/5g786x/any_alternative_solutions_of_aws_efs/
The solution would need to support around 1000 new documents/ minute with the document size 4-8mb
You can use s3fuse as a solution for shared file system for use case with multiple reads and infrequent writes. AWS has a private link between vpc to s3. So you can access the object store within a low latency network instead of accessing it via an external internet gateway.
There are some limitations that are not addressed yet..
performance benchmarks for reference..
If you need a reliable shared storage file system, you can set up NFS cluster with high availability. It can setup with minimum 2 nodes.