Elastic Beanstalk: How to write files to a folder in my node.js project folder

I created an application on my local machine(mac os x) that generates a report and saves it to a folder in my web project folder. When I deploy the app., this folder should get published as well. Granted, no one should have access to this folder but the app. When I run the code to generate the report works fine on my local machine, but it seems to hang on elastic beanstalk. What do I need to do to make this work on the elastic beanstalk environment?

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