Laravel Storage Folder

I'm currently in the process of trying to deploy a Laravel 5 application to an AWS Ec2 instance. I'm using Jenkins CI with the AWS Code Deploy plugin, but I seem to be having issues. It looks like the Storage folder is being completely excluded from the projects directory. IE completely missing. I decided to follow up and launch a base Laravel 5 app just to test. It still drops off the Storage folder. Anyone have any idea why the Storage Dir is being dropped from the build?